My wife, she still gives me a hard time, and says I hunt too much or I like to play golf too much. And she’s probably right, but it sure beats some of the things I used to do.
I like to speak with more experienced people – with the staff, the manager – and get a lot of advice. But from a young age, I always remember that talent is good, but hard work beats talent.
Joe and I always say that our guide through action is always story and character. We’re always driving right at the character beats, or else the action beat doesn’t work.
Nothing beats a live performance. Nothing.
I have to make beats every day. Wherever I go, I got a keyboard waiting for me.
Nothing beats weaving through the rush-hour traffic or whizzing past the eternal gridlock that is the Strand.
My producer, HH, makes sounds, so I’m writing to his beats.
I really like Pat Parker. I really like Audre Lorde. I read a lot of the Beats when I was younger, so Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder. I’ve been discovering a lot more modern poems as well.
When it comes to true humility in the face of history, nothing beats complete silence.
Nothing beats a good tan, but I’ve also been trying to avoid sun exposure on my face as much as possible.
I was against getting Beats cause I know they’re kind of really popular and you know, hey’re such a well known brand. But, I ended up buying them and they have changed my life, and the best thing about these is the battery life.
The ugly heart of the South still beats with this idea that one group of people is worth less.
When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that is wordplay, so that stayed with me when I started writing songs.
I admire many actors, though I don’t think there’s anyone whose career I would want to mirror sort of by the beats. What I’m really looking to do is constantly defy expectations. I’m very curious to see if you can actually have a character actor and a movie star’s career combined.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
I have a particular pair of headphones I love so much I bring them everywhere: Beats Studio. It’s perfect for watching movies as well because you feel like you have your own theater with you, even with your iPad.
Nothing beats a good part with good writers that you get to come back to year after year.
When I got my first check from ‘Rack City,’ I was like, ‘Damn, I can make this much money making beats?’
Ud Jana’ is a rock song, so we have used funky beats to give it a youthful appeal.
I’ve always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple.
No one will ever be able to come against me on the beats.
I tried to be a rapper. I tried to make beats before I got into comedy, and that’s still one of my hobbies.
Most actors will tell you, when they’ve got emotional stuff that’s hard to carry around for hours and hard to try to do justice too, it just beats your butt.
The key is a good story. If you have a good story, you have enough emotional beats that you can hit.
I was making all my own beats, and I really liked sampling stuff, like old ’50s and ’60s pop and soul and doo-wop records. I was chopping those up and putting loops and drums on them and just rapping over them.
When I was making beats, I don’t remember thinking about doing it as a career, I just remember that every day I wanted to do it.
Comparison is a thug that robs your joy. But it’s even more than that – Comparison makes you a thug who beats down somebody – or your soul.
Hard work pays off – hard work beats talent any day, but if you’re talented and work hard, it’s hard to be beat.
Music was more fitted to my temperament. If you were feeling sad and down in the boxing gym, you’d get hit more than you would on a normal day. If you’re feeling sad and down and you’re sitting in front of a computer with beats, you might make the best song you’ve ever made.
If you listen to the radio, and something beats you into surrender, like ‘REO Speedwagon’, and you really hate them, there’s ‘You Can Go Your Own Way’ in your ear all day, and that’s what makes a good song.
I’ve been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first ‘Papercut Chronicles’ were actually beats that I made.
I’ve never worked hands-on with a producer. I’ve been on my own writing, just taking beats and doing what I have to do. I’ve been on my own. To have Timbaland invite me in and say that ‘I want to work with you’ is amazing. He’s a legend.
When Migos flew me out to see if I was actually making the beats, they didn’t expect a white kid from Canada to be making harder beats than the guys in Atlanta. Being white in that environment, it was definitely different.
I think Lesnar is one of those rare beats that only come along every 15-20 years, even if that and he’s just an animal.
The garden is something I always try to get into, but it always beats me.
As comfortable as I am being single, nothing beats sharing your happiness with someone you love.
I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can… The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It’s one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I’m in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Studies show when people yell, they get themselves even angrier. Interesting factoid: If you and/or your partner’s heartbeat becomes higher than 100 beats per minute during an argument, you will not be able to fully understand/process what the other is saying.
My favorite body part is my heart. Nothing beats loving and being loved.
I’m going to be the guy that beats Jon Jones.
I’m always in the studio with my dad. I’ve written a few songs. I’ll start off writing rhymes, then freestyles, then I add in beats.
I date African-American women. That’s all I date. In my family, it was never discussed – but I love black women. Nothing beats a sister. However, when you see a female like Jennifer Lopez, you have to acknowledge that there are many beautiful Latino women as well.
I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is ‘Fermi Paradox,’ it’s the song before ‘Exist.’ To me it’s got the coolest, it’s just so bizarre because it’s got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats.
I’ll make a whole bunch of beats whenever, but unless I’m living through something or have a female in mind, or have a conversation in my phone I could scroll through, I’m not making music.
Anytime I sing the anthem, it is an honor and my heart beats out of my chest.
Naturally, any time that our national team beats Australia is pleasing but the first time we beat them in 10 years at Stratford in 2005 was a day I’ll never forget.
Paris is beautiful, but nothing beats home.
I’m no politician. I’m an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
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.
Confidence beats a lot of people.
There’s a lot of surplus rage from the ’60s that was never really worked through publicly. I think a lot of that rage still exists, and I think you see that when John McCain runs a commercial that beats up on Hillary Clinton’s earmark for a Woodstock museum.
I was in bands, like everyone else, when I was 16, 17; I was a little skater listening to Dead Kennedy’s and Steel Pole Bath Tub. It was through early 90s Hip Hop that I found my way to Soul and Funk, and then out the other side into beats.
I am honored to be chosen for this collaboration; I grew up watching Disney and using Beats headphones. Now I get to represent them both – it’s unreal.
‘Jhankaar Beats’ is a great movie with fabulous music. But when I see myself in it as an actor, I feel so tiny and young.
I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad’s Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.
My brother makes beats, and I DJ.
Nothing beats a great smile.
I never made beats to make beats; I only made them when there was a record to make them for. That’s one of the things that has changed in hip-hop that’s made me like it less. It feels much more like it’s a producer-driven medium, where there are all these tracks that are completely interchangeable.
My heart beats in three-quarter time.
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 first heard Trouble in 2008. At that time I was on my grind, trying to work with all the next-up artists. I had sent him a couple beats; he had done a couple songs. We was always around the same age.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Some actors – myself included – like to know where your character’s going: you like to know what the arc is for the character so that you can plan where you’re going to give beats for this, that, and the other and give the audience what they want. But on ‘Homeland,’ you do the opposite.
