A Quote by Miles Davis

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

Miles Davis

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Beat Drums Hears Instead Love Makes Plays Ravel Think Top

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Miles Davis
American - Musician
May 26, 1926 - September 28, 1991

I don't like pre-written raps; I think it makes the song better if you listen to the beat first. In a sense, you have to make a marriage with the beat. I ride the beat, hear the flow of the drums, get the melody of my flow, and then from that point, it's a process of what I want to say.

Freddie Gibbs

Every now and then there might be a beat someone turned down that I have as an unused beat. But everything that predominantly matches the artist in my 30 years of doing this, it was me walking in and sitting there with no drums, no samples, no nothing, and making a beat on the spot.

DJ Premier

The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.

Jack Kerouac

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

Keith Moon

This guy don't come to the ballpark to beat you. He comes to beat you bad. This (Jackie) Robinson, he plays a ton.

Leo Durocher

We have yet to beat our drums for birth control in the way we beat them for polio vaccine. We are still unable to put babies in the class of dangerous epidemics, even though this is the exact truth.

Mary Calderone

I'm the drummer that kind of plays more on top of the beat.

Tony Palermo

My family is all musicians - my dad plays drums, my mom plays flute, my older brother plays drums, my little brother plays drums and piano. For some reason, I didn't get the memo, so I just play bass.

Thundercat

I can do it all. I can go over the top, or I can beat you with speed. I can beat you with some wiggle, or I can run through you.

Saquon Barkley

I have no doubt in my abilities that I can beat any of the top ten guys. Once I'm focused I know I can beat them.

Gegard Mousasi

All I really want is a beat from Kanye West. I've met him, and I think he's real cool with us. If I get that beat, I'm going to rap the best verse I ever dropped - even if it's his worst beat.

Domo Genesis

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

The original 'Don't Let It Get to You' started with a beat. The drums came first. All the musical and lyrical elements were written over those drums.

Rostam Batmanglij

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That's the three ways to beat a man.

Conor McGregor

I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.