Quotes About Beat

A woman from the audience asks: 'Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?' and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward and says: "There were women, they were there, I knew them, their families put them in institutions, they were given electric shock. In the '50s if you were male you could be a rebel, but if you were female your families had you locked up.

If you're smart or rich or lucky Maybe you'll beat the laws of man But the inner laws of spirit And the outer laws of nature No man can No, no man can...

In rock and pool, in air and light on water, through fall of prey and cry of kit, through scrape of claw and beat of blood, we hear you.

Hagler was a puncher-slugger. He'd box sometimes, but boxing wasn't his forte. His thing was relentless punishment and 'beat you.'

It's not only 'Aashiqui.' In the case of any cult film which has a sequel or a remake, it is very difficult for the new one to live up to expectations because nostalgia is very difficult to beat.

Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

I think of myself as a reporter. I just rhyme my reports and give them a beat.

We know that the far left and their media allies can't beat us on the issues, so instead they'll distort our records. Let's not do the job for them, OK, Republicans? OK, independents?

I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.

We will continue to work around the world to beat ISIS about where they may exist, these are horrible ideologies or murderous ideologies.

An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.

I would like to mud wrestle Angelina Jolie. She would probably beat me up, but I like a challenge and she is very sexy.

As a writer, I find it very satisfying when a lyric suddenly ties together more neatly than you expected it to. But for the listener, hearing a good lyric is not generally as exciting as hearing a great beat or a great riff or a great melody or even a distinctive singing voice for the first time.

I wouldn't do just a tour, it would have to be an album, and the album would have to beat Pull.

I admired the tournament system because it brings some reality to the game. You had to beat everybody to get your title shot. It wasn't something random, you got there because you beat everybody else.

'Despacito' started with a melody hook that I had with my guitar only. The beat for this track came after I wrote the lyrics, which I wrote as if I was writing a ballad.

There's more to music than just words over tracks.

Certainly the beat writers I've known who carried forward the original, you know, I'd say that came together in the 1940s and 50s. So I was inheriting in a way some of that ethos.

Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together.

Because it's all about the rhythm, you said. Good sentences start with a beat.

One. Two. Three. Blink.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

You can beat with love