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Quotes About Beat

If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.
~ Max Martin
'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.
~ George Benson
Show a leg or shake a leg.
~ Unknown
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
~ Irvine Welsh
Testimonials are the BEST way to beat down the price objection and win the sale.
~ Jeffrey Gitomer
Rhythm is what we beat our feet to. It is "the time relationship between tunes.
~ Unknown
It might have been a new way for her heart to beat.
~ Philip Pullman
OK true, Funhouse 1, like all the foreseen and planned national chain of Funhouse franchises, is, in reality, just a discotheque. A watering hole and meat market and gathering place where the spotlights tell us where and how to swing to the beat. One big enclosed anarchic revel—a Party: where we, via Party rule, gather and pretend with grim Puritan fortitude that we're having just way more fun than anybody could really be having.
~ David Foster Wallace
He treats his body like it's made of fireworks, each one timed to the beat. Is
~ David Levithan
The story was the price you paid for the rhythm.
~ Zadie Smith
I respect Canelo's ability and achievements but to me he is simply another fighter I need to beat. Just another step along the road.
~ Rocky Fielding
I always said as an amateur that I'd want to one day fight and beat Kindelan because he was the best out there.
~ Amir Khan
They had three cadences, these spectral drummers, which they called First Kings, Second Kings, and Revelations. Going into a fight, they went from one cadence to another with no apparent signal until the officers began to shout commands and men began to fall. Then the drummers began a solemn drill beat that Bushrod believed would be the muttering undertone of every nightmare he would ever have.
~ Unknown
We Can't Stop' has so many different vibes to it. She sounds country; the beat has these live, knocking drums; and then it has these pop melodies. It's a feel-good record.
~ Mike Will Made It
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
~ W. H. Auden
Congress may be going home for the holidays soon. How can you beat a Christmas gift like that?
~ Bob Hope
I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards - You name them; I'll shoot them!
~ George S. Patton
When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad.
~ Trevor Horn
Myrnin was silent for a beat, and then he said, Bob would be very disappointed in you.
~ Rachel Caine
I'm good. And it's good to see you've kept up the tradition of getting the holy shit beat out of you,even when you're in a nice, civilized place.
~ Rachel Caine
I already know the words. I just need to learn the beat. This tone-deaf white girl will try to make music out of recovery.
~ Rachel Cohn
The room was dark with rainlight, though, and the roof thrummed overhead. The sound of it seemed inside his blood, like the beat of the bodhrana inside the night, like the beat of his heart in the forest.
~ Diana Gabaldon
I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
~ Yuna
If a song is a living, breathing entity, you might think of the tempo as its gait—the rate at which it walks by—or its pulse—the rate at which the heart of the song is beating.
~ Daniel J. Levitin