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In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat. -- Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat. -- Van Morrison
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats. -- Ann Powers
I grew up in a house full of music. Everything from reggae and afro-beat to Zook and pop. -- Estelle
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
I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.' -- Jimmy Fallon
I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind. -- Robert Fulghum
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
When I lived in the U.K., I recorded a lot of ska and rock-steady styles of Jamaican music. But people there weren't accepting it. So I began using a faster reggae beat. -- Jimmy Cliff
The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel. -- Wynton Marsalis
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
In '96, I was in a very specific place with my own music - I was only listening to beats. You would come to my house, and I would just play beats all day. -- Bjork
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
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous. -- Archie Shepp
I use music in the operating room to help create a healing environment for patients and staff. There is a reason that certain heart rates are healthy and certain beats of music heal and relax us. -- Bernie Siegel
News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still. -- Robert Krulwich
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
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
When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation. -- Robert Krulwich
I grew up poor in crappy situations... various crappy situations. What kept me sane was reading and music. I had so many different literary tastes growing up, be it fiction like Stephen King or Piers Anthony or non-fiction like reading Hunter S. Thompson essays or reading the Beats. I was a huge fan of the Beat movement. -- Corey Taylor
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy. -- Chubby Checker
But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. -- Casey Kasem
Music is the beat of a drum that keeps time with our emotions. -- Shannon L. Alder
Music is life, without the beat in your heart you would be dead. -- Kalae Salazar
A hot producer might not make a hot beat for me. I just love music. -- Kevin Gates
Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it. -- Chinua Achebe
The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat. -- David Johansen
It was Chinese music. I couldnt understand it, but it had a good beat to it. -- Ray Allen
I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping. -- Nina Simone
We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped. -- Brandon Sanderson
My policy has always been to play new music. New beat, industrial, techno, disco, funk, rare groove and house music. -- Eddy de Clercq
I donâ??t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music. -- Keith Moon
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it. -- Paul McCartney
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. -- Rakim
I'm sure that if Plato hadn't been against music with a strong sexual beat, Bloom would have kept quiet about rock-and-roll. -- E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart. -- Michael Connelly
... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that. -- Sam Palladio
Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it. -- Jennifer Lee
The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke. -- John Lennon
ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlÃ¨d ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear. -- Gerard Manley Hopkins
The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough. -- George Carlin
I write some country music. There's a song called 'I Hope You Dance.' Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it. -- Maya Angelou
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
I like the type of music that can make my heart beat and the melody that makes me high but this type of music isn't popular in Korea. -- Seungri
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
If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in. -- Wesley Eisold
It's weird that remixes have been associated so much with dance music. I think it's just kind of box-standard to put a beat behind it saying it's a remix. -- Simon Taylor-Davis

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