Beats Quotes

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

I don't like rock opera with back beats.

I'm trying to open up my range and really sing more. With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation,' it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.

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.

I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.

Nothing beats the original Krispy Kreme.

I have a superstition about saying too much about what I want to happen, just in case it all disappears, or someone else comes along and beats me to it.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

Everything I make as a producer, I visualize it as a DJ first. And all those beats, I test them as a DJ.

My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all.

We're living in a world where Google beats Gallup.

Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Nothing beats having this beautiful child look at me and say mum. I get soppy all the time.

I'm a competitor and a very proud man. If a guy beats me once, he'll have to do it again to make me believe him.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.

You just realize that at the beginning of 'Scooby' you're just going to start at level ten and stay at ten the entire time. It's hard. It physically beats you up. It's definitely one of the hardest movies you can do.

You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.

I wanted to be a doctor at one point and I also wanted to be a pilot. I think if you grow up in a dodgy area, reality often beats down those ambitions as you get older. But with me that never really happened.

Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

I guess it beats throwing trash for a living.

She hits me and she beats me and she drinks. My mom is an alcoholic.

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.