Beats Quotes

3,311 quotes from 2,354 authors

Beats pulse through everything from drums to team dynamics, and this massive archive proves it. With more than 3,000 quotations, writers, athletes, and musicians argue how rhythm drives performance, shapes culture, and even colors conversation. If you’re hungry for more, the Rhythm and Music Theory pages explore the science and feeling behind each tempo.

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I be rockin' the beats.

Black Eyed Peas

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My goal is to beat yours.

Dathan Ritzenhein

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Fire beats roses again.

Suzanne Collins

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I kind of go to the beat of my own drum.

Richard Sherman

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You only beat me if you get me to hate.

Billy Joel

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Persistence always beats Resistance

Anonymous

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Nothing beats a good TACO!!!!!!

Ida Adams

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To be the best you have to beat the best

Chris Brown

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Dear Saturday, when you're not here...She beats me.

Donald Faison

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Remember, whatever the price...I'll beat it! I like living! Tyrion Lannister

Anonymous

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As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

Leo Durocher

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A troubled life beats having no life at all

Richard M. Cohen

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The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.

Erica Jong

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London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

David Byrne

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The midge's wing beats to and fro A thousand times ere one can utter O.

Coventry Patmore

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The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Wendell Phillips

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A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world…

Davy Crockett

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Anytime someone can beat the acting out of someone else, I think its a wonderful thing.

Kevin Spacey

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I feel like I failed," I said. "Don't beat yourself up," Jim said. "She might not have turned out like you planned,…

Anonymous

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“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958”

Mort Sahl

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Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at…

Dana Perino

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I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

Brian Chippendale

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'There's no need for fiction in medicine,' remarks Foster... 'for the facts will always beat anything you fancy.'

Arthur Conan Doyle

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I was born to love you with every single beat of my heart. I was born to take care of you every…

Freddie Mercury

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I work with a lot of production that's really positive and contains a lot of soul stuff. Those instrumentals project the happiness…

SonReal

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If somebody tells me, 'You have to pass that car right there,' I guarantee you I'm going to step up the aggressiveness…

Jeff Gordon

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Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know…

Betty White

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Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's…

Joe Elliott

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Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to…

T. D. Jakes

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He wanted to heave the glasses against the wall. Break them, break everything he could reach. Beat it, rend it. He stared…

Anonymous

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My oldest brother and my middle brother would always beat me up and take the ball from me. I used to cry…

Gary Payton

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The people running the business have to be people of good character. They have to have good Internet support. You can't be…

Brian Tracy

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Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these…

Bob Richards

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Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the…

Anonymous

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People ask me: ‘What is punk? How do you define punk?' Here's how I define punk: It's a free space. It could…

Ian MacKaye

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Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches…

Karen Marie Moning

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Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That…

Jim Butcher

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I do get labeled as a guitar band, but the only reason is that's the instrument I know how to play. The…

Mac DeMarco

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A foundation in Christ was and is always to be a protection in days "when the devil shall send forth his mighty…

Jeffrey R. Holland

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When I go out and race, I'm not trying to beat opponents, I'm trying to beat what I have done ... to…

Ian Thorpe

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