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Quotes About Beat

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
~ Levon Helm
With 'HUMBLE.,' I knew that beat was going to capture a moment. It just felt real urgent.
~ Mike Will Made It
Being tough on China is one thing. Being completely erratic with no strategy and dragging businesses and farmers through the mud, using them as pawns in the game, is not the way to beat China.
~ Tim Ryan
This is one reason why it remains anarchic even at its most canonised. The modern world is Time's fool. Art is master of itself. But, you may say, who has long hours for a book these days? The answer must be whoever wants to read one. A reader must pick up a book, then the reader must pick up the beat. At that moment the clock is stopped. Now I am getting his beat into my brain (the rhythm is the main thing in writing).
~ Jeanette Winterson
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work
~ Lars von Trier
McGregor is a good fighter, has a flashy striking, but he's not good enough to beat Aldo.
~ Patricio Freire
I had a lot of rematches in the amateurs. You don't always know what an opponent's going to do. I do find that I beat them more easily second time around.
~ Carl Froch
Dee Dee very much filled in the bottom of our sound as opposed to supplying the rhythm.
~ Tommy Ramone
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
~ Casey Kasem
I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.
~ Groucho Marx
My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
~ David Foster Wallace
If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down. Give me a case to put my visage in: A visor for a visor! what care I What curious eye doth quote deformities? Here are the beetle brows shall blush for me.
~ William Shakespeare
Under love's heavy burden do I sink. And, to sink in it, should you burden love; Too great oppression for a tender thing. Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
~ William Shakespeare
Is love a tender thing? it is too rough, Too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn. Mercutio: If love be rough with you, be rough with love; Prick love for pricking, and you beat love down.
~ William Shakespeare
My heart began to beat like a merry drum and blood started flowing through my veins like cars from a wedding party honking their way through town.
~ Yann Martel
Before setting out for their sunset runs, Jenn and Billy would snap a tape of Allen Ginsberg reading "Howl" into their Walkman. When running stopped being as fun as surfing, they had agreed, they'd quit. So to get that same surging glide, that same feeling of being lifted up and swept along, they ran to the rhythm of Beat poetry.
~ Christopher McDougall
If I wanted your opinion, I'd beat it outta ya. - Walker Texas Ranger
~ Chuck Norris
Truth is always an interior and inexplicable contact. My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. My heart has emptied itself of every desire and been reduced to its own final or primary beat.
~ Clarice Lispector
One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys.
~ Holly Black
Man I go crazy on the beat I go Nimrod, Man I act a ass, treat the beat like a hemorrhoid Man I go to work on the beat, call it employ, Man I kicks it, b-tch get your shin guard.
~ Lil Wayne
Music is emotion set to rhythm and tone.
~ Unknown
I have a varied collection of music on my phone. I like a lot of the popular music that has a really energetic beat to it, as well as some classical things.
~ Chesley Sullenberger
I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.
~ Ghostface Killah
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.
~ Diane Paulus