Quotes About Beat

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.

Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.

My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music.

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

A short story relies on those values that make poetry and jazz what they are: tension, rhythms, inner beat, into unforeseen within foreseen parameters

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.

If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

I've got feathers in my hair, I get down to beat poetry.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

Musicians sort of knew this already—that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.

Robbie Robertson of the Band said he always knew when they were playing in the south, because that's where everybody claps on the backbeat. Exactly.

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.

Good rock music always tends to be around.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool.

You're starting to sound like one of those songs that DJ's play when they wanna clear out the dancefloor.