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If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz. -- Ray Manzarek
I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion. -- CeeLo Green
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting. -- Michael Eric Dyson
I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm. -- David Gallagher
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man. -- Ike Turner
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
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm. -- Ken Burns
daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i'm gonna beat out my own rhythm -- Nikki Giovanni
I hate click tracks. I'm to busy in the click track to feel my own heart rhythm, my own soul beat. -- Ringo Starr
I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum. -- Gillian Zinser
I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me. -- Matthew McConaughey
Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience. -- John Carpenter

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