Top 100 The Beats Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About The Beats

#1. I'm a big believer in rehearsal and a big believer in the actors being able to find the material themselves and identify with the beats themselves without us having to stick to the actual language of the script, just for them to understand what each scene is about.

Dean Israelite

#2. I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

Ariana Grande

#3. The real dance is a spontaneous body movement that in harmony with the beats of the music in your heart.

Toba Beta

#4. I'm a slave to the beats of the story, not to the words we use to tell the story.

Steve Dildarian

#5. I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.

Jessica Sanchez

#6. Avoid the wrath of the war outside the heart! It keeps raging on.
Hold on to its lullaby, even when the beats are gone.
The same things that both haunt and heal,
are the reason of bliss and the tears,
that you can only feel.

Supriya Kaur Dhaliwal

#7. I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.

Obie Trice

#8. Why shouldn't the living cords which lace our being together flick softly against a loved one in the very moment of their unraveling?...Sometimes, all the miles between are as nothing, sometimes, they are narrowed to the little silence between the beats of a heart.

Colleen McCullough

#9. You make my insides feel like the vibrator's on!-Rev'ed up-throbbin'-as the beats send chill's down my mind into those dark legs of ecstasy where no man dare's whimper my name-That divine sensation that drives me into the nethersphere!-You here the trippin' I am drippin ?

Rickey Russell

#10. For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Q-Tip

#11. The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.

Azealia Banks

#12. I was able to interpret the difference between the sharp, quick sound and the slow, deep sound of percussion and manipulate it, get a third sound out of things, if the beats were rapid enough.

Sunny Murray

#13. 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

#14. So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

Warren Jeffs

#15. The importance of the Beats is twofold: first, they act out a critique of the organized system that everybody in some sense agrees with. But second-and more important in the long run-they are a kind of major pilot study of the use of leisure in an economy of abundance.

Paul Goodman

#16. I will say you could always look at 'Looney Tunes' and learn about writing. I think you can learn a lot about the beats of comedy. I think you can find out about awkward pauses, because I think they did those well.

Jim Rash

#17. The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

Tom Verlaine

#18. The Beats are really nothing more than a troop of malevolent Boy Scouts trying to earn badges for cultural arson.

Carlene Bauer

#19. Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#20. I used to do the beat box. A friend of mine, he was the rapper and after, we'd be doing a block party or something or a house party, and he's gettin' all the attention and I'd end up with a handful of spit, you know, from doing the beats.

DMX

#21. When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Billy Crystal

#22. He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

David Foster Wallace

#23. I admire many actors, though I don't think there's anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I'm really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I'm very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star's career combined.

David Oyelowo

#24. I'm not so much into the beats. I'm more into the spiritual side of the music.

Ziggy Marley

#25. The Beats inaugurated the long march through the moral territory of American culture. Who knows how many lives were blighted along the way as a result of their proselytizing on behalf of drugs and promiscuous sex?

Roger Kimball

#26. I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

Tommy Lee

#27. I go to clubs and if I notice the DJs are playing the records faster, then I'll push the beats a little on the next record I make. A lot of people don't know how to watch out for things like that.

Jermaine Dupri

#28. Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#29. I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

Gustav Ejstes

#30. I am, day after day, falling in love with the years that dwell in his wrinkled face and the memories of the old days which are the beats of his weak heart.

Refaat Alareer

#31. Which the experimental participant leaned her head on a chin-and-forehead rest and stared at a camera while listening to prerecorded information and answering questions on the recorded beats of a metronome. The beats triggered an infrared flash every second, causing a

Daniel Kahneman

#32. 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

#33. I really believe that music is the only motivation you need-regardless of genre-after that everything else you need to guide you just somehow falls in line-it's all about the beats!

Rickey Russell

#34. When I notice that all the beats sound exactly the same, it starts to wear on me.

Judd Apatow

#35. She counted the seconds with the beats of her heart.

Eloisa James

#36. The axe is fifteen pounds. You have to make sure you don't hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras. It has to look real. That in itself becomes challenging because you have to learn it straight away.

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

#37. The beats change, I mean you got a lot of artists out there advancing new sound, new technology, new beats everything sounding very futuristic, so I feel it would have been boring for me to do another hip-hop record.

Kool Keith

#38. Toasting is basically what you call rapping. It came off of playing the beats at the parties, however it be. You find a space in the beat, and you have somebody live just basically saying rhymes over the beat.

Damian Marley

#39. I basically use the sketch step to turn the beats (the "tell") into a draft (the "show"), and then to make notes about anything that's not yet fully formed in my mind, but that I know will eventually need to be in the draft (i.e. transitions).

Monica Leonelle

#40. 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

#41. Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.

David Brooks

#42. As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey.

Stephen Gaghan

#43. People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.

Corey Taylor

#44. The minute anyone makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.

Amy Poehler

#45. Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

Horace

#46. Aleksey and I have gathered together a bunch of kindred spirits who are also versatile musicians. We have a violinist who eats fire, another who is an acrobat, and a flutist who beats boxes. We hope in years to come to tour the U.S. with our 'League of X-traordinary musicians.'

Richard Hyung-ki Joo

#47. It's all about her. Every movement, every breath, the way my heart beats firecely inside my chest, is all because of her. Violet owns me.

Jessica Sorensen

#48. Nothing left but true: "You're gravity I can't escape." His sore heart labored beats in the darkness. "What am I supposed to do with that?" she said. "What you can," he said. "What you want.

James Grady

#49. When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

Ian Axel

#50. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of beat.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#51. Genetics and beats? I feel like the drumbeat is a natural thing. Our heartbeat moves at a certain BPM. The drumbeat, being the first instrument, the platform for us, being that we all kind of come from that - it's all beats.

Q-Tip

#52. Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Henry Chester

#53. Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

Virginia Woolf

#54. Tack's eyes stayed locked on Shy's two beats then he said quietly. "Make her happy."
Shy held his gaze as, for the first time in fucking months, he began to breathe easy.
There it was.
Tack just gave it.
His blessing.

Kristen Ashley

#55. The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.

Simon Schama

#56. Bebop and hip-hop, in so many ways, they're connected. A lot of rappers remind me so much of bebop guys in terms of improvisation, beats and rhymes. My dream is to see hip-hop incorporated in education. You've got the youth of the world in the palm of your hand.

Quincy Jones

#57. You have no idea," she whispered, repeating the first secret Ben had given her. "How fast my heart beats every time you're near.

Kayti Nika Raet

#58. Paki- bashing was kind of this term that was used in general to beat up anyone that was from the Indian subcontinent.

Aasif Mandvi

#59. The one thing I am most proud of myself is that I know how to keep my cool and not be intimidated - anyone can be beat.

Perdita Felicien

#60. Love is the connection between souls synchronized through heart beats.
Quote from my upcoming book 'Always Be MINE

Neha Daraad

#61. Modern civilization is so complex as to make the devotional life all but impossible. It wears us out by multiplying distractions and beats us down by destroying our solitude, where otherwise we might drink and renew our strength before going out to face the world again.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#62. Without 'tis autumn, the wind beats on the pane
With heavy drops, the leaves high upwards sweep.
You take old letters from a crumpled heap,
And in one hour have lived your life again.

Mihai Eminescu

#63. You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.

James Baldwin

#64. *** You know that place in between nightmares and dreams? The place where tomorrows never come and yesterdays don't hurt anymore? The place where your heart beats in sync with mine? The place where time doesn't exist, and it's easy to breathe? I want to live there with you.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#65. I know I shouldn't say this - I know it as surely as I know the earth is round and beats are evil - and yet here it comes: It's not too late to change your mind.

Sara Zarr

#66. For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.

Sam Abell

#67. Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.

Saul Bellow

#68. You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.

Pope John Paul II

#69. I was a Spidey fan as a kid. I always liked the complexity and the teenaged angst that Spider-Man, Peter Parker, always had to deal with. It was kind of a deeper, darker storytelling that just good-guy-beats-bad-guy.

Jack Coleman

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

Common

#71. You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#72. angry and pushed the love aside, but it was too strong for me to fight. All my heart needed was to be near him again to remember that it beats for him.

K.L. Grayson

#73. to attract the love of life
my hair like rain
beats around your gaze
my eyes like stars
shine around your passion

Nazanin Mousavi

#74. That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

Payne Stewart

#75. For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#76. The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis.

Norman Davies

#77. Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who's fought his whole life to fulfill his people's dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else's strength for a little while doesn't make you weak.

Kylie Griffin

#78. There would have been no Beats deal without the Samsung deal. It showed the number one company the importance of connecting with culture,

Kanye West

#79. Growing old is God's privilege to you ... you only can be compared to any antique and old wine ... antiques are expensive and old wines taste best ... above all, it beats the alternative
DYING YOUNG. So cheer up and be grateful that God is giving you that privilege.

Peekey

#80. When I go away from you
The world beats dead
Like a slackened drum.

Amy Lowell

#81. I don't think something is a failure if you put your all into it. I'm a big fan of the saying, "Nothing beats a failure but a try."

Regina King

#82. And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is burning?

Gustave Flaubert

#83. The return to anywhere you last visited as a child is difficult, especially when it's a door. Your heart beats harder when you knock.

China Mieville

#84. I am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings.

Daesung

#85. It's me who is my enemy
Me who beats me up
Me who makes the monsters
Me who strips my confidence.

Paula Cole

#86. The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!

Epes Sargent

#87. My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

Tyga

#88. I'm sorry. Were you just speaking to me? I apologize most profusely. I was distracted by the size of the sweat stains under your arms. Are you overly warm today? It seems unlikely given the cold, dead heart that surely beats in your chest.

T.J. Klune

#89. If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

Stephan Pastis

#90. You're going to live. That's not to say you're going to be happy for a while, but it beats the alternative.

Catherine Coulter

#91. Oh, dear God, you don't actually have a brain, do you, it's more a filigreed spiderweb, with little chambers in it where trained monkeys play the pipe organ.

Glen David Gold

#92. Never allow anyone or anything to demise or dull your truest identity. Hurtful words and harsh judgments have no impact when your north star, your guiding light, shines from the center of your chest and beats from your own truest heart.

Toni Sorenson

#93. I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.

Greg Rucka

#94. You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.

Joel Osteen

#95. I told him that if a man is born in a dry place, then although he may dream of rain, he does not want too much, and that he will not mind the sun that beats down and down.

Alexander McCall Smith