Beats Quote by David Johansen Download Open image “The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.” — David Johansen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beats Firsts Latin Latin music Mind Music Psychology Puerto rican
We took dancehall and hip-hop and mixed it in the middle. I knew we had something. I thought, 'This sound is Puerto Rican sound.' — Daddy Yankee Copy Share Image
I know Ritchie Valens in 1959 had 'La Bamba' but to be totally Spanish - because, you know, Ritchie didn't speak Spanish - but to be a total Latin artist like myself, to be out in a field where there weren't any categories for Latinos... I felt good that I was maybe - I didn't know it at the time… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share
I did whole Latin albums and it was like Beatlemania for me in the Latin world, the screaming girls, not being able to leave… — Jose Feliciano Copy Share Image
Being a New Yorker, I used to dance to Latin music. There was a place called the Palladium on Broadway. And Tito Puente and… — Neil Sedaka Copy Share Image
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. — Carlos Santana Copy Share Image
I definitely think it's cool being Puerto Rican and Dominican, but I feel it has no influence on my music. — Melanie Martinez Copy Share Image
The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
I've fallen in love with South American music: Tango, the music of Argentina, the music of Brazil, Stan Getz, Bebel Gilberto. — Melody Gardot Copy Share Image
Ten, 15 years before, the Latin industry was singing Anglo music, trying to get an opportunity with them. Everything changed, and now around the… — Karol G Copy Share Image
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
I'm not impersonating anybody. I'm perfectly satisfied with what I am. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
You try things on in life. You wear them for a while, and you see what's next. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n'… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
We thought that's the way you were supposed to be if you were in a rock 'n' roll band. Flamboyant. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
There's so much negative bullshit being forced down people's throats in the marketplace, we really wanted to create a thing of beauty that will… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used… — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable. — David Johansen Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has… — Henry B. Eyring Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this… — Laura Ingraham Copy Share Image
I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
Only two to three per cent of an audience is interested in words and pays attention to lyrics; most of the rest of it… — Al Stewart Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
I don't know about the rest of the world, but I know in our region everyone is gunning to beat us. We have a… — Landon Donovan Copy Share Image
Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water. — Baron Bilimoria Karan Bilimoria Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
