BBC TV gets hold of an idea and beats it to death until we’re all heartily sick of it. They buy people without thinking what they’re going to do with them. It’s the wrong way around. What they should be doing is employing really good ideas people to come up with good ideas.
I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
Accessories are key – nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades – look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.
A French Republican is a Republican who beats up on conservatives and is constantly praising the Democrats and contributing to the massive spending in this country while they go home and pretend otherwise.
I started making beats when I was 13.
I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.
Producing isn’t just making beats on a beat machine. It’s bringing together these string players with this flute player and this singer, and telling them to all work in the key of C major… You bring these people together and let them all cook.
I really prefer the actual experience of being onstage and living the character from beginning to end with the energy of the audience. There’s nothing that beats that feeling, and yet I really have trouble with the eight shows a week.
Nobody beats Superman. Everybody else needs a costume – Superman needs a costume to be normal.
I’m the type of guy, I make a lot of different beats, but sometimes I might stick to a sound for a little while.
I’m aware that I have a career. But, if I was the hottest in the game, songs all over the radio – let’s say whoever produced made me super big. Like, that would be cool, but there would be something in me that goes, ‘You only wrote the raps. You didn’t make the beats. You didn’t direct. You didn’t do all that.’
Not anyone can rap to my beats.
There is nothing – nothing – that beats being in the jungles. It’s so easy to just sit and meditate there.
Because of Valentina’s career in MMA and the way she beats her opponents, beating her will be even more important than when I won the strawweight belt.
I’ve been rapping on some crunk beats and getting down on the South music for years. I feel like I can do it all.
Nothing beats the original Krispy Kreme.
Certainly, I find that ‘Mere Christianity’ speaks to me. So why am I still an agnostic? Beats me.
We’ve had other things come up in their place, but I don’t think’ anything beats morals.
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.
Nothing beats a jog, and perhaps a push-up or two, by the ocean on a beautiful day.
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
I would say this: no matter what style you play, at some point, the team that beats you, people are going to say, ‘I guess your style doesn’t work.’
As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.
A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
I pick simple beats because I need space for me to work.
I love Kanye for that. Being a producer, making beats, and being a rapper. He does it all.
There’s an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want.
As any parent knows, sharing diaper duty sure beats changing them all yourself.
Before I got my big hit, I was selling beats for $500.
I think being creative and making something that you can look at is so good for your brain and your soul. Nothing beats it.
When I was a youngster, I might have been about 17 or 18 when I first started making beats.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Chennai has changed a lot. I knew Adyar as a village which has now become the heart of the metropolis. But my heart still beats for the old Madras.
I started making beats in high school.
The best is that one that beats everybody. I don’t care about the rankings.
As long as a man’s heart beats, as long as a man’s flesh quivers, I do not allow that a being gifted with thought and will can allow himself to despair.
I used to re-create the beats that I heard.
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.
Sometimes I go in and try to write beats, but I just trash ’em, and then the next time I go in, I’ll make like six beats – six legit, nice beats. I’m really particular with how it needs to sound.
I started off making beats when I was like 12. Then when I linked with people who make beats full time, I was like, ‘Bet, now I can focus on writing and singing.’
I’ve been on the other side where I know that a bad day at WWE beats the best day at Staples.
We’re living in a world where Google beats Gallup.
I felt like I plateaued at playing drums, like I wasn’t getting any better. I bought an electric pair of drums, sold my drum set, and got introduced to making beats.
But I love singing live. Nothing beats the feeling of going out on stage and going, ‘I can really sing.’
I was joked by a lot of older musicians because I was playing saxophone over trap beats or future bounce beats, and it just wasn’t what you do. They were just like play some John Coltrane and get in the corner. But that’s just not how I work.
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.
I’m not going to hate anybody who beats me. But. I. Just. Don’t. Like. Losing.
My fans love me for me, my beats, my rhymes.
I swear I am the worst gamer. I try, I try, and I try, but for some reason, you know, it – yeah. I got – everybody beats me. Let’s just put it that way.
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.
All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That’s power to me.
A lot of the stuff I’ve accumulated over the last few years of touring I thought was really interesting. Like sounds, sound bites, and beats even, but they weren’t good dance beats they weren’t ones anyone would want to rap over or anything.
To create and do something no one else has done before – that feeling beats anything else I’ve felt.
Experimenting is part of the process. I remember when I was younger, I spent a whole year just writing on straight trap beats because I just wanted to be able to do that at a high level. So it’s about perfecting your craft in every way.
When we did Beats, we had to begin again. Nobody at Best Buy knew who we were.
I know enough to know every time a cable show beats a broadcast show… you’ve attracted people outside the scope of what you normally reach.
The DJ thing is just a way for me to perform my songs in public. It put me on the map, and a lot of people discovered me because of my DJing and later found out that I made beats.
I played drums since I was 6 years old. And then I got into producing music when I was about 16 or 17. Somebody showed me FL Studios, the program. My beats were bad at first, but then eventually they started to get good.
I get hit up all the time from every verified rapper with 1,000,000 followers like, ‘Yo bro! You got the sauce right now. Send me beats!’ Naw, that takes everything away from what I do.
‘Solja Rag’ was designed for Juvenile. It wasn’t one of them beats where I was gonna chop it and see who I was going give it to: it was Juvenile all over it.
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!
I write most of my songs to beats. I play around on guitar, but not enough to where I can compose my own stuff or play solos. I can accompany myself ’cause most songs are, like, four chords.
Who cares if your outfit is black and you’re sporting a brown belt? Wear it, rock it, love it – and others will, too. Nothing beats a belt.
Growing up in a Singaporean Chinese family, for me food is almost the primary means of communication between family members, both immediate and extended… hey, it beats discussing which cousin did better at end of semester exams, or who’s getting married next, right?
Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.
There’s a basic law, Klein’s second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.
I always say I have two hearts – one beats for Poland and the other for Germany.
One of the things I love about music and making beats is making something and watching someone’s reaction, knowing you can do something to manipulate the way people move or act.
