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Quotes About Beat

Rat-a-tat-tat." "Quack."
~ Kate Angell
Rhythm is regulating.
~ Bruce D. Perry
The beat of her heart, the slow burning away...of the bitter fires of the devil's arcade.
~ Bruce Springsteen
But Muskie was the one who could beat Nixon or unite the party or was the clear leader—or any of those other phrases of antiquity.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I make YouTube viral videos all the time, and I made a video called 'Beauty and the Beat,' And as a strange, wacky coincidence, Justin Bieber dropped the song 'Beauty and a Beat.'
~ Todrick Hall
Bounce is a primarily call-and-response style of hip-hop over a 'Trigger Man' beat. It's a New Orleans-created hip-hop style that developed in the late '80s, early '90s.
~ Big Freedia
I remember my first trip to Toronto. There was this street musician playing an instrument I've never seen before - like, he had a hang drum on the left side and this random bagpipe, bodhran stick type of thing. It was the craziest thing ever! So I sampled it for a beat.
~ Masego
It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.
~ William Billings
Having a very serious thematic element in the lyrics and then juxtaposing with something really triumphant and just a big beat to dance to is a nice contrast to having a dark message.
~ Brendon Urie
There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.
~ Barry McGuire
The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'
~ Robert Ley
Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.
~ Dobie Gray
Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.
~ Dana Gould
There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.
~ Fred Hersch
The motif of Beat Generation is basically misunderstood, a misinterpreted area. There's this superimposition of the idea of a social rebellion, which was the communist interpretation through Lawrence Lipton.
~ Allen Ginsberg
I never liked socially conscious rap. I like rap that's physical, that's about a beat and bass and repetition.
~ Harmony Korine
That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.
~ Talib Kweli
A band is as solid as its drummer is.
~ Joey Kramer
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
~ Elvis Presley
Love gives you one more heart to beat for you.
~ Sutputra Radheye
Let her out! I screamed at the tree. I beat on its trunk with my muddy fists. Let her out, or I'll bring you down! Fulmia ! I cried out in rage . . .
~ Naomi Novik
The vampire changed the music from some heavy metal thing to Sarah Mc-Lachlan's "Good Enough," which is slow, but with a beat.
~ Charlaine Harris
I love melody more than any other part of music.
~ Chamillionaire
I'm all about the melody.
~ Craig David