Beats Quotes - Page 25

• Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s.

  John Mellencamp

  Music, Country, Men

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• Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the haiku was the poetic expression of Zen. Not surprisingly, his books attracted the attention of the Beat school, most notably writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, all of whom had a prior interest in Zen.

  Reginald Horace Blyth

  Book, School, Expression

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• The fact is, I don't know where my ideas come from. Nor does any writer. The only real answer is to drink way too much coffee and buy yourself a desk that doesn't collapse when you beat your head against it.

  Douglas Adams

  Real, Coffee, Ideas

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.59, Del Rey

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• Most investors, both institutional and individual, will find that the best way to own common stocks (shares') is through an index fund that charges minimal fees. Those following this path are sure to beat the net results (after fees and expenses) of the great majority of investment professionals.

  Warren Buffett

  Majority, Way, Path

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• I don’t think the drums are a solo instrument. Drums are there to set the beat for the music.

  Keith Moon

  Thinking, Solo, Instruments

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• Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Yield, World, Sometimes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.116

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• I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats

  Lil Wayne

  Rapper, Beast

  FaceBook post by Lil Wayne from Apr 24, 2014

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• He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

  Bjorn Borg

  Player, Feel Good, Weakness

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• We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked on them only as sweet-voiced singers, and nothing more; they did not wish to fulfill their commands, they even despised, persecuted, beat and killed them; lest we should be like those, by whom 'no prophet is accepted in his own country' (Lk. 4:24).

  John of Kronstadt

  Christian, Country, Sweet

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• Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.

  Taylor Swift

  Travel, New York, Light

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• If you can't beat 'em, confuse 'em.

  Harry S. Truman

  Ems, Strategy, Ifs

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• Devotion is not drama. Devotion is a way of living. Devotion is the way you walk, the way you breathe, and the way your heart beats.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Drama, Heart

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• You can't beat life when you consider the alternatives.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Alternatives

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• There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, “yes,” in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.

  Saul Williams

  Powerful, People, Parent

  Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• Vinyl survived, we managed not to kill it. Knowing that you’ve taken part in this fight... You can’t imagine the happiness it brings. Every time I see a kid going out of the store with a vinyl record under the arms, my heart beats faster. Music should only be this. An intense emotion.

  Jack White

  Taken, Heart, Kids

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• When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

  John Dos Passos

  Kids, Moon, Hands

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• Just because you BEAT Michael Jordan doesn't mean you BECOME Michael Jordan.

  Larry Merchant

  Mean, Jordan

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• If you're smart or rich or lucky
  Maybe you'll beat the laws of man
  But the inner laws of spirit
  And the outer laws of nature
  No man can

  Joni Mitchell

  Smart, Men, Law

  Song: The Wolf That Lives In Lindsey, Album: Mingus, 1979

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• Lord #‎ God , I praise Your Holy Name. Let every beat of my heart be a note of love in the symphony of my life.

  Mother Angelica

  Heart, Names, Symphony

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• Some people are like blue jeans- the older and more beat up they get, the better they look.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Blue, Jeans, People

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• London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

  David Byrne

  London, Minutes, Tempo

  "In David Byrne, Meltdown 2015 has found more than a talking head" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2015.

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• Good teams beat you with speed. Great teams beat you with spacing and timing.

  Jason Kidd

  Team, Timing, Speed

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• Reading is performance. The reader--the child under the blanket with a flashlight, the woman at the kitchen table, the man at the library desk--performs the work. The performance is silent. The readers hear the sounds of the words and the beat of the sentences only in their inner ear. Silent drummers on noiseless drums. An amazing performance in an amazing theater.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Children, Reading, Men

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2004). “The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination”, p.143, Shambhala Publications

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• I do try to work out a little. I go swimming twice a day. It beats buying golf balls.

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Swimming, Work Out

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• I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me

  Serena Williams

  Play, Difficult, Ifs

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