Cold Quote by Flying Lotus

I'd always envisioned 'The Big Beat' leading off 'The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I…

— Billy Squier

The Soft Machine's 'Volume Two' inspired me heavily. That record just feels like it was all done in the same breath. It's genius, and…

— Flying Lotus

When I started making beats in the 7th grade - even through middle school and high school - I admired a lot of Shawty…

— Metro Boomin

I did 'The Sound of Music.' That was my first musical.

— Lindsay Mendez

The first time I ever recorded, which was into my boom-box, I was like, 'Wow, check that out.' It sounded great. The narcotic of…

— Ian MacKaye

I think I have always made really beat-driven pop-rock records.

— Mat Kearney

The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps rolling through…

— Anthony Burgess

I made my first song when I was 9 years old. Just beating on garbage cans, having people beat box.

— Ludacris

I was once making a burger for myself at my boyfriend's house and a lyric started pouring out and I had to catch it,…

— Jill Scott

I had all these raw, gritty rock records that really inspired me sonically, and so I think everything I listen to when I started…

— Aubrie Sellers

The Beat thing happened when I was younger. I used to run away from home, inspired by the Beats, like in '64 and '65.

— Tom Verlaine

I think my first song ever was when my cat died. It was this awful, dreadful black cat who was angry and hated everything.…

— Thomston