Quotes About Beat

A great way to get your rhythm playing together is to work with a drummer, preferably someone that has a good groove and plays solidly in time.

I like to groove a little bit!

I just love a great groove.

My playing is always just a little on top of the beat. I can't lay down the kind of groove that Brad Wilk can. I'd really have to lay back to do that; it just doesn't feel natural to me.

You have to grow with the music.

I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

I have to think in terms of musical tempo. Let's say someone comes into a room and slowly sits down or someone rushes into the room and rushes to sit down. That's how to work out the tempo of the music you produce.

Music really gets me going, so I've always got to make sure I have my iPod to give me energy to work out.

I was in awe of my older brother, but he was also quite a threatening figure - he used to beat me up.

I had a romance novel inside me, but I paid three sailors to beat it out if me with steel pipes.

I was bought an electric guitar when I was 12, but my guitar teacher beat me up. I didn't like guitar lessons and I got quite bored. My teacher was obviously bored giving me lessons, and one day I offered him a liquorice toffee, but he didn't answer. So I threw it at him, it hit him in the face, and he sort of beat me up.

I am never up for rain sequences because nothing can beat the excitement and thrill of natural rain.

Beating a tight game requires focus. You'll need to seek out every opportunity where you can steal a big pot. One way is by representing a hand that your opponents probably can't beat.

And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,Was beat with fist, instead of a stick.

skidded to a stop, then resumed beating, double time. I stuck the papers back in the folder. He

if you have your film set at the right speed

The atmosphere felt unexpectedly intense and the music was frantic. The beat made it both difficult to think straight and pleasant to move – like swimming almost.

It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could'st make the time to do so too; I'll wind thee up no more.

Certain drummers drop time, and I like to play on top of the beat.

I'm more relaxed when I can hear the beat clearly all the time I'm singing.

And this is our time-keeper, with a passion for percussion