Quotes About The Beat

#1. It's just music. It's trying to play clean and looking for the pretty notes. The beat in a bop band is with the music, against it, behind it. It pushes it. It helps it. Help is the big thing. It has no continuity of beat, no steady chug-chug. Jazz has, and that's why bop is more flexible.

Charlie Parker

#2. Not just the normal back-and-forth. A prickle in the air, a slicing edge. I couldn't tell if it was about her, or just the day that was it, or if it was the squad. Murder is different. The beat goes faster and harder; the tightrope is higher and narrower. One foot wrong, and you're gone.

Tana French

#3. You can lead an uncommonly fine life. But it takes determination. You have to march to the beat of different drummer. You have to decide.

Frederick Lenz

#4. The fastest, cleanest, most joyful way to break out of your own box is by dancing. I'm not talking about doing the stand-and-sway. I'm talking about dancing so deep, so hard, so full of the beat that you are nothing but the dance and the beat and the sweat and the heat.

Gabrielle Roth

#5. The beat of a butterfly wing causes a hurricane on another part of the planet.

Patricia Cornwell

#6. Don't tell me to watch the beat. You watch me.

Boozoo Chavis

#7. He's still, because he's listening to me. He's listening to the beat of my heart. His head lifts off my chest in one swift motion as he locks eyes with mine. Whatever realization he's just had causes his gaze to pierce mine with excitement.

Colleen Hoover

#8. So sometimes if I'm working with a rapper, like Ghostface Killah or Nas, producing usually means, in hip-hop, that you make the music. You make the beat, and you give it to them. And they write the rhymes.

Mark Ronson

#9. Without the beat in the background, Jazz basically sounds like an armadillo was let loose on the keyboard

Bill Bailey

#10. Let your heart be the anchor and the beat of your song.

Neil Peart

#11. There is a moment after riding when you stop and listen. What you hear is your heartbeat in perfect rhythm with the beat of your horse's heart. It is a moment of pure magic.

Chloe Thurlow

#12. Usually I start with a beat, I start making a beat, and my producer side is making the beat. And on a good day, my rapper side will jump in and start the writing process - maybe come up with a hook or start a verse. Sometimes it just happens like that. A song like 'Lights Please' happens like that.

J. Cole

#13. (He remembered resting against her afterward, listening to the beat of her heart, taking her breath into his lungs, and thinking that he was the luckiest man in the world, that you couldn't connect with a human being any more perfectly than that. And sure enough, he'd been right.)

Beatriz Williams

#14. Vhat is your nom?" Preston had a lazy eye, and the alcohol added to the lopsided effect of his gaze.
"Shannon Tinker, and I watch you like you're a TV show." Shannon added a bop to her stance, unconsciously dancing to the beat of the song constantly playing in her head.

Debra Anastasia

#15. Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

Bill Vaughan

#16. If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

Elijah Wood

#17. As I watched the pulsing fire among the trees and heard the beat of the drum merge and tremble with the voices, forming an intricate pattern of sound, I knew that someday I would have to return or be haunted forever by the beauty and mystery that is Africa.

Gerald Durrell

#18. But we're not God. We're humans, and at the end of the day we have to march to the beat of a certain kind of drum. And if you step outside too far into thinking you're some sort of deity that can transcend law and order, then you've crossed a line.

Ronald Perelman

#19. 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.

L.A. Reid

#20. I love you... I want you... I need you. The words chanted in her head with the beat of her pulse, repeating over and over. His voice - or was it hers? - grew more insistent with each utterance. Come to me. Give yourself to me.

C.L. Wilson

#21. If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

Gustav Ejstes

#22. Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

Michael Connelly

#23. Love for you dances within & around my core of being as regular as the beat of my heart. As certain as the draw and release of each breath.

Truth Devour

#24. I always march to the beat of my own drum... I always have, ALWAYS will - Samantha Fontien

Samantha Fontien

#25. This is life, the one you get so go and have a ball, because the world don't move, to the beat of just one drum. What might be right for you, may not be right for some. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have my opening statement..sit ubu sit. Good dog.

Seth MacFarlane

#26. I wrote my first song, 'Conversion', to this little hip-hop instrumental. I went to an open-mic, plugged my iPod into the P.A., and sang over the beat.

Leon Bridges

#27. My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.

Wayne Dyer

#28. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.

Casey Kasem

#29. I've always been a fan of poetry. I grew up with Lawrence Ferlinghetti and the Beat poets. I really followed that stuff for a while. I just love the way people threw words around like they were painting.

Ric Ocasek

#30. 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

#31. One truth is the swing of the sentence, the beat and poise, but down deeper it's the integrity of the writer as he matches with the language.

Don DeLillo

#32. Humor is like a rhythm; it's like music. And you throw a couple of extra syllables in, you wreck the beat and you kill the laugh. So I try to follow the writers very carefully because I know how carefully they worked to do it that way.

Betty White

#33. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that.

Meek Mill

#34. Her fingers danced over the sculpted landscape of his sleek back and then came around to his chest, where she could once again feel the beat of his heart, not nearly so steady now.

Jill Shalvis

#35. If reading is like breathing then writing is like the beat of a heart.

Laura Holford-Green

#36. Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

Betty White

#37. Give me the beat, boys, and free my soul. I want to get lost in the rock and roll, and drift away.

Dobie Gray

#38. I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue.
Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

Elizabeth Scott

#39. No place for illusions here. The beat doesn't stop solitude, it doesn't cure pain, you can't telephone it - it's simply a reminder that you belong to a shared story.

John Berger

#40. People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production.

Torae

#41. But now, everything is so quiet. Not just the pool, but my mind, too. I don't even feel the urge to swim to the beat of a song. I'm mentally spent. Out of words. Out of thoughts. It feels so good to be this empty. It's so peaceful. -Sam

Tamara Ireland Stone

#42. I only know that you are the breath in my lungs, the beat of my heart, the ache in my soul, and without you, I am empty.

Rachel Gibson

#43. His voice sounded the same, now so familiar that I could follow the beat in my head, predicting each change of tone, each note of accentuation.

Kelley Armstrong

#44. I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.

David Bowie

#45. 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

#46. I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

Nas

#47. The beat reminded me of some of the stuff that Tracy listened to, the stuff that sounded like robots having angry sex in the middle of a disco.

Charles Colyott

#48. Rock and roll to the beat of the funk fuzz
Wipe your feet really good on the rhythm rug
If you feel the urge to freak, do the jitterbug
Come and spread your arms if you really need a hug.

Q-Tip

#49. The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me.

Jonah Books

#50. Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

Billy Joel

#51. The Beat spokesman, surprisingly, seemed to be satisfied with the ethics that we have inherited.

Paul Goodman

#52. I make YouTube viral videos all the time, and I made a video called 'Beauty and the Beat,' And as a strange, wacky coincidence, Justin Bieber dropped the song 'Beauty and a Beat.'

Todrick Hall

#53. I never write from concept. The beat is the beginning, and then I fill in the rest of the song into what it should be.

Wiz Khalifa

#54. When you have something on your mind that you really have coming out of your brain ... just talking to the beat, it's pretty easy and it's a natural feeling and at this point in my career. That's what I'm going for, I just want things to be organic.

Ryan Montgomery

#55. I don't rely on catchphrases or really like sing-along. I just do whatever I feel. Whatever the beat makes me say, I do that and I run with that. It's been working for me, so I'd be cool with that.

Meek Mill

#56. I had no right to be in love. I had nothing to offer her. But reason drowned in the beat of my heart, and I asked permission to kiss her.#Ren

Colleen Houck

#57. The craftless anarchy of the Beat poets on the one hand, and the extreme control of Henry James on the other, suggest that for most human beings, just as both freedom and discipline are necessary in life, serendipity and design must coexist in a work to make it readable.

Mark Helprin

#58. The first thing I notice is that there isn't really anybody "dancing." Everybody is grinding. I guess that's all people do now. Nobody really knows how to dance; they just know how to move their hips to the beat.

Riley Shasteen

#59. Cops on the beat can stop problems before the damage spreads.

Elizabeth Warren

#60. Time is not duration but intensity; time is the beat and the interval [ ... ]

Ursula K. Le Guin

#61. I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' [Dangler] basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.

Paul Banks

#62. No. No he didn't break you, my dear." Inhuman eyes probed hers delicately. "The most he managed was a bend here and there. Apparently he has forgotten that the beat of the hammer in the flame's heart only strengthens a good blade.

Angela Knight

#63. His hooves pound the beat, your heart sings the song.

Jerry Shulman

#64. I'm an amalgam of the 19th-century romantics and the beat poets.

Roy Harper

#65. Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

#66. ...unlike the Lost Generation, which was occupied with the loss of faith, the Beat Generation is becoming more and more occupied with the need for it.

John Clellon Holmes

#67. If the heart that matches the beat of your own comes in the body of a man, so be it. Doesn't change anything. You're the same man you were yesterday. Better, even.

L.C. Chase

#68. With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.

Channing Tatum

#69. It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.

Pamela Des Barres

#70. If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.

Branford Marsalis

#71. Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it is about image or the beat or the sound, or else it's a tribal thing - country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

Al Stewart

#72. To think to keep things as they are, is to let them move unpredictably, since nothing but death will still the beat of the heart or keep the universe from its perpetual motion.

Freya Stark

#73. Live by your own rules Move to your rhythm, instead of dancing to the beat of someone else's drum Decide how you want to be treated Choose what you will or will not tolerate Leave if you don't get what you want.

Sherry Argov

#74. I have a vision of a Galaxy overrun by mankind from Core to rim. Of four hundred billion stars each enslaved to the rhythm of Earth's day, Earth's year. I have a vision of a trillion planets pulsing to the beat of a human heart.

Stephen Baxter

#75. Jessica was clearly in her element, moving with the music naturally and without effort. Even her lustrous golden hair swayed to the beat, completing the perfect picture of a dancer caught up in ecstasy.

Francine Pascal

#76. As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Michael Connelly

#77. You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

Saul Williams

#78. We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart.

Emmanuelle De Maupassant

#79. Balance, the stroke of the wise, the style of the sharp. The way, the groove. Bal-ance: the sole of the feet, the soul of the Universe, takes step after step down the beat to time: da DUM, da DUM. Bal. Ance.

Mark Donnelly

#80. The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

Patricia Ireland

#81. Unquestioning automatons
blindly marching to the beat -
an eerie crunching sound
hoards of shuffling feet ...
(from silent moments)

Muse

#82. I got nothing against the honest cop on the beat. You just have them transferred someplace where they can't do you any harm. But don't ever talk to me about the honor of police captains or judges. If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job.

Al Capone

#83. I'm a dude who likes to create music with good feeling. I live like a chameleon through music. It all depends on what the beat tells me to do; that's why you're always gonna get passionate hooks, because I'm feeling the beats and the emotion behind the drums and melodies.

Kid Cudi

#84. She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#85. The beat of two hearts becomes one when intertwined in a passionate kiss

Lisa Marbly-Warir

#86. I don't have the body for this," I quipped, lifting my chin to a voluptous woman nearby who shook her hips zealously to the beat. "No curves."
Jev's eyes held mine. "Are you asking my opinion?

Becca Fitzpatrick

#87. Sometimes your hole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
-Lover Awakened

J.R. Ward

#88. On horseback you feel as if you're moving in time to classical music; a camel seems to progress to the beat of a drum played by a drunk.

Walter Moers

#89. I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings

Macklemore

#90. When you are drumming and really feeling the music, the beat, it is like you are transported to a different place, where you feel so exhilirated and calm through your whole body.

Mickey Hart

#91. Imagine if you were a drummer, and you accidentally picked up two magic wands instead of sticks. There you are, keeping the beat, the next thing you know, your bass player turns into a can of soup.

Mitch Hedberg

#92. And we'll let the world dance around us while you lie here in my arms. The beat of your heart is all the music I need to hear. I spent my whole life searching for this melody, so I'll listen while I hold you near.

Courtney Giardina

#93. You're leaving, "she said, rising to her feet. "I knew it was coming."
"How?"
"I'm your mother. You're the breath of my lungs and the beat of my heart. I know you very well.

Lisa See

#94. Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.

N'Zuri Za Austin

#95. March to the beat of your own drummer.

Henry David Thoreau

#96. It is time to put more cops on the beat and remove our most violent repeat offenders from our neighborhood streets.

Bill Schuette

#97. I believe in the power of motion, the wisdom of gravity, the emptiness of true love, the fact that there is no way out but through the body, no way up unless we all go together, no way down unless we follow the beat, no way in unless we embrace the dark.

Gabrielle Roth

#98. I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

Ice-T

#99. I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.

Dreezy

#100. Elegance; it lacks the intellect -
he is not a dancer who dances to the beat of love - on the other hand, the heart, can not solve mathematical problems.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann