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Quotes About Beat

The best way to express rhythm is music.
~ John Hartford
Forever, we all had a real clear understanding of what Parcells' teams looked like and played like: tough as hell and didn't beat themselves.
~ Dan Quinn
If you say, 'I listen to pop,' you picture this kind of perfect, colorful, polished song. I want to have that, but when you open it, you see this gritty dark - kind of like dancing your tears away. Disguise the sadness in a pop beat.
~ Tove Lo
I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.
~ Chet Faker
Let me tell you something about Joe Manganiello - I don't care, dude. The most impressive thing that you have on your cinematography is that you got beat up by Spiderman.
~ Maxwell Jacob Friedman
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
~ Brian Setzer
Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.
~ Santan Dave
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
~ Tennessee Ernie Ford
I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.
~ Paul Gilbert
Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.
~ William S. Burroughs
Prayer is the pulse of the renewed soul; and the constancy of its beat is the test and measure of the spiritual life.
~ Octavius Winslow
It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing
~ Duke Ellington
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm
~ Langston Hughes
the author of Beat the Dealer and a mathematics professor who devised a winning card-counting system on a high-speed computer.
~ Jim Paul
Boom chicka boom. Benjamin can hear her soundtrack so clearly she might as well be carrying a speaker on each hip. In his neighborhood, she'd have a line of men following her down the street, dancing to that beat.
~ Ann Napolitano
The heart beats steadily, more certain.
~ Anna Akhmatova
Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can't look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn't get back.
~ Anna Funder
But the mysterious and private heart never ceases to beat. Indestructible and immortal, the heart beats on, independent, and beating for me alone…
~ Anna Kavan
Instead of hearing the harmony of the world, we have heard a cacophony of sounds, an unbearable static in which we try, in despair, to pick up on some quieter melody, even the weakest beat.
~ Anne Applebaum
Drummer, beat, and piper, blow Harper, strike, and soldier, go Free the flame and sear the grasses Til the dawning Red Star passes
~ Anne McCaffrey
I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.
~ Christine and the Queens
I was a beat-the-system sort of player, but you can't beat the system, you have to prepare properly.
~ Jimmy White
Rock and roll kind of screwed up my voice poetically. I found myself having this 'Beat' voice in my poems. It was like this self-fulfilled prophecy because everybody was calling me this rock poet, this Beat poet.
~ Jim Carroll
I think all those artists are artists who are appreciated because you believe their words and you appreciate their honesty in their music. If you don't appreciate the honesty in the music, the beat can be fly as hell but you'll never give an emcee props.
~ Talib Kweli