Just the same way I'd say a prayer before going onstage, taking that even further and using the drum to inspire people. And using that as a vehicle for the intention.
I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game, obviously it beats you up both mentally and physically.
In the beginning, I wanted to work with Slim Duncan. He actually passed away right around when I started making beats.
Where I grew up, there was only one CD shop, and I didn't really like school, so we'd register, then bunk off, and we would be round my mate's house making drum-and-bass mix tapes.
Nothing beats a good tan, but I've also been trying to avoid sun exposure on my face as much as possible.
Nobody and nothing beats The Simpsons. Even after all this time, it's still the best satire since Monty Python.
Playing someone drum 'n' bass for the first time in 'Pass Out' - they're like, 'Oh my God, what is this?' I'm having a lot of fun and a good time showcasing the music.
I like to go to old versions and find out what effect beats and scales have on your body, how they can transport you.
For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.
I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
I have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
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.
I grew up on the pirate radio scene which started out as drum 'n' bass music. U.K. garage picked up and got bigger on the back end of that.
In baseball and sex, cliches are usually true: pitching beats hitting, and people always want to be loved by anyone who doesn't seem to care.
I feel like I've won every year the show has been picked up by Logo because, really, nothing beats a paycheck.
I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.
And indeed, what is better than to sit by one's fireside in the evening with a book, while the wind beats against the window and the lamp is buring?
I really didn't even pick producers. I just picked beats, except for Dre - he's the only producer I knew I wanted to work with.
A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
I started out as a drummer, and when I was 9, my drum teacher had an album out. He was the rudiment king! He signed it for me, 'Rudimentally yours, Frank Arsenault.' How cool is that?
I think [Ann Coulter] understands that, she's Pavlov's dog. She gets the corn kernel if she hits that drum once in a while.
When it comes to being badass nothing beats this It took me 17 years and 114 days to become an overnight success.
Luck influences everything in life, but nothing beats setting goals and striving body and soul to achieve them.
A little rain beats down a big wind. Long drinking bouts break open the tun(der).
In so many of the other beats these days, there are these layers of public relations people that you have to go through to get to the newsmakers themselves.
No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.
People don't realize how sick Amanda Nunes is. She beats some of the UFC bantamweight males in the gym.
I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.
The older I get, the more I want to do. It beats death, decay or golf in unfortunate trousers. Peace and quiet depress me.
There are some concrete ways to create a winning attitude. But nothing beats practicing it. When you prepare to win, belief comes easily.
The quad toms are a completely different animal than the standard drum set/trap kit. Playing wise and stylistically, they are two different beasts.
Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle,
Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.
The trouble with poetry is it's often written to the sound of a drum only the poet may hear; nonetheless, blessed are those poets who always manage to find unshakeable pleasure in their own works.
When I was young, I had one of those Yamaha drum machines, and I used to practice to that quite a bit, just to practice soloing and being in time and completing all my phrases.
I think hip-hop is really fun right now... and that's why people are using dance beats and singing more.
Many have died; you also will die. The drum of death is being beaten. The world has fallen in love with a dream. Only sayings of the wise will remain.
I think the biggest problem with drum and bass is that people don't like to collaborate, and so from very early on I have made a point of stepping outside the box and working with as many people as I can.
When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.
The darned thing about mandolins is they're really hard to turn up as loud as you would need to be to play with a drum set. They cease to sound like mandolins.
Spaniards are fun-loving people, and they love to dance to Punjabi songs for some reason. They didn't understand the language but enjoyed the beats.
When I write, I write the drum beat. Though sometimes I write on piano or guitar.
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.
There's a lot of negative messaging and it beats on you after a while. And people are growing up with that stuff and they start believing it themselves.
I would describe my sound in the field of electro pop. A combination of deep yet simple lyrics coupled with easy beats.
England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune.
While I absolutely love a great drummer and get tunnel vision listening to drums at a show, a lot of the time I feel like drum machine-driven music tethers you to a genre.
I think I'm going to have to get a flying license very soon, and maybe one of those Lear jets. It beats motorcycles all to hell.
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.
I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.
When we dropped 'Toot It And Boot It,' Mustard didn't even do beats, and now he's killin' it. So it's just cool to see all of my bros taking over.
At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.
Alber Elbaz is just a genius. He'll be in a dinner jacket and he doesn't care what time of day it is: I love that about him. He just marches to the beat of his own drum.
I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.
I can conduct and play musical instruments, but dancers' counting is different - they only go to eight beats, which doesn't relate to a bar.
America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.
I just sing over hip-hop beats, you know. That's what I've been doing. That's what I started in '09 in my dorm room.
I can run the gamut with beats that no one else would think of. I'm not a trained musician, so I focus on what feels right before I dispatch to writing.
Before 'The Vampire Diaries,' I was making beats, which is how I got will.i.am's attention, and I went on tour with him.
The cold blast at the casement beats;The window-panes are white;The snow whirls through the empty streets;It is a dreary night!
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