Quotes About Making Beats

#1. Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel ... and staying humble.

Pete Rock

#2. It was incredible to have J Dilla in your dining room making beats - it was one of the greatest experiences I've had.

Common

#3. What really changed my life was watching the movie Juice and the opening scene - just hearing that record rotate. When I heard that I started getting serious about DJing and making beats and recording myself on the four-track.

Gonjasufi

#4. In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.

Mike Shinoda

#5. I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96.

Aesop Rock

#6. So I'm in the library, and I have keyboards out and my headphones out. Everybody's like, "Mike are you making beats right now?" and I'm like, "Yeah ... sorry!"

Mike Posner

#7. I love hitting the stage and I don't think I could trade that for sitting in the basement making beats.

Kid Ink

#8. I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.

Abbie Cornish

#9. I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

Abbie Cornish

#10. I had to figure out what to make for myself as an artist. As a producer you make stuff for all kinds of different people. I was making beats for other artists but not for myself. It was kind of weird.

Kid Ink

#11. Everything in my life has been about sound and making music, so Beats represents just that - the improvement of sound and the dedication to everything I've been doing from the day I started.

Dr. Dre

#12. People in college, if you're getting recognized for getting good grades, you're finally famous. If you get recognized for playing the drums, if you're being recognized for making good ass beats, good ass raps, you're finally famous.

Big Sean

#13. There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

Rumi

#14. Oh of course it pleased me, it pleased me greatly. But I also felt as if my body had the consistency of egg shell, and a slight pressure on my arm, on my forehead, on my stomach would be enough to break it and dig out all my secrets, in particular those which were secrets even to me.

Elena Ferrante

#15. The father, Trevor, was an asthmatic, but what he lacked in being able to breath quietly, he more than made up for with parental skills.

Alan Partridge

#16. I started making my own beats because I just couldn't afford to pay for the other ones.

Big K.R.I.T.

#17. the luxuries and redundancy of speech" - indulgences appealing to
the passions rather than to reason - that he believed "eloquence ought
to be banished out of all civil societies as a thing fatal to peace and good
manners.

Nora Bacon

#18. There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

Louis C.K.

#19. Oh, baby." He kissed me softly. "Thank you, for bringing me back to life. For making this beat." He put a hand to his heart. "It beats for you, and them.

Adriane Leigh

#20. So, yes, I was jealous of him - because it will always be easy for him. And he will never know what it is to look up at the night sky and wish.

Sarah J. Maas

#21. A lot that was happening in 2005, 2006, good and bad, the beats reflected it. It was a lot of money around. People was making music to throw money to.

Gucci Mane

#22. It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold.

William Shakespeare

#23. I'm such a strong believer in making yourself happy. Almost in a selfish way. There are a lot of trends, and obviously you can get swept up into them. But I feel like if you just write songs you love, it can have trap beats in it or whatever's going on in the moment, but you don't stop loving songs.

Dev Hynes

#24. There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.

Ryan Lewis

#25. It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#26. But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

Donald Judd

#27. I think that I'm just on such a mission with my career that you don't really get to stop and think about your jersey number too often.

Carli Lloyd

#28. You have to be very cautious that you're hitting the right beats and making sure it's funny, but at the same time when those notes are serious, you're trying to get your point across and it's not about the comedy.

LeToya Luckett

#29. Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would.

Ann Powers

#30. I feel like I'm not on Earth just to shake it and shake it endlessly, you know?

Shakira

#31. I didn't like men because they were so physically competitive. Men are always making a pecking order. "I can beat you up and you can beat him up ... "

Carl Andre

#32. So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

Steven Soderbergh

#33. People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

Beatrice Warde

#34. We're our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful.

Michael Strahan

#35. Here's the thing ... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.

Benny Blanco

#36. Speaking of bones recalls an ugly custom of theirs, now obsolete - that of making fish-hooks and gimlets out of those of their enemies. This beats the Scandinavians turning people's skulls into cups and saucers. But

Herman Melville

#37. I was making crappy beats since I was, like, 17 or 18, using Florida rappers, where I'm from. Then I started DJ'ing because I just wanted to have a new job.

Diplo

#38. God gives prosperity only to those who personally know him and are obedient to His will.

Sunday Adelaja

#39. As a result of the success achieved by so many clients who used my approach, I was told to write a book, instead of breathing fire and brimstone about the 'mystery' being built up around diet and disempowering messages that only other people can do it for you.

Emma James

#40. As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, "Aye, Sir. Course laid in" is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Wil Wheaton