I've never worked hands-on with a producer. I've been on my own writing, just taking beats and doing what I have to do. I've been on my own. To have Timbaland invite me in and say that 'I want to work with you' is amazing. He's a legend.
I grew up singing ballads, but what I really wanted to get into was the mainstream music on the radio because I really love the beats and everything.
I got a hundred bucks says my baby beats Pete's baby. I just think genetics are in my favour.
I like collaboration because, first of all, I'm good at writing lyrics. I don't know how to make beats. I don't play instruments. I'm not a good singer. So even when you see a solo album of mine, it's still a collaboration.
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
Women in music have always been associated with pop - with prettiness, theatricality, melodic hooks and dance beats.
Winning isn’t everything, but it sure beats anything that comes in second.
Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
I don't like rock opera with back beats.
Accessories are key - nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades - look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.
I'm no politician. I'm an historian who has learned through a lifetime of studying that nothing in the world beats universal education.
I knew that as a DJ from 1970 on up that I would eventually come with this sound. I brought out all these other break beats that you hear so much on a lot of these records.
That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.
I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.
Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical.
I've been producing since the early stages of Gym Class Heroes. A lot of the songs on the first 'Papercut Chronicles' were actually beats that I made.
I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
A hot dog at the game beats roast beef at the Ritz.
So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.
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.
Why did they do it? Beats the hell out of me. I was just a scared kid from Kentucky, and these guys had been up in the majors for a while. I guess it was because I was just such a helluva nice kid - if you'll accept that.
In high school I was making beats for my friends and for myself and rapping over them.
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.
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
I spent 19 years as a Washington reporter covering a variety of beats.
I grew up watching Gregory Hines banging out rhythms like drum beats, and Jimmy Slyde dancing these melodies, you know, bop-bah-be-do-bap, not just tap-tap-tap. Everyone else was dancing in monotone, but I could hear the hoofers in stereo, and they influenced me to have this musical approach towards tap.
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity.
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don't buy headphones - people do.
I've been going to Europe for some time on the festival circuit, and once you get in that element and see others reacting to it, it's easier to understand. You get trapped in the wave. The beats are driving and super-aggressive - like, so hard. I was curious.
The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue.
I enjoy travelling the world, but nowhere beats Walsall.
I'm most proud that I thought of Beats at 55.
