“I don't know if it's cool to say this anymore, but I grew up listening to Gary Glitter. A majority of his songs were in that shuffle-blues beat, and I think that's probably why I tend to write like that.” IfsThinkingKnowsWritingSongListeningGrewGrew UpBeatsMajorityGlitterGaryShuffle Author:Martin Gore
“I'm intrigued on how music is made, that's how I started getting into it. Of course I've been in the booth before, just joking around to see how it is, and I'll make a couple of beats here or there and help my artists out. But other that, I'll stick to listening.” MadeHelpingArtistCoursesListeningCoupleMusic IsBeatsSticksIntriguedJoking Around Author:Kevin Durant
“I like walking around and listening to music. When my steps coincide with a beat, in my head I feel in unison with the world that I'm living in.” WorldFeelsStepsListeningWalkingBeatsListening To MusicUnison Author:Wesley Eisold
“I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing.” WritingEnjoyRoomsListeningBeatsSittingRhymeSitting Alone Author:Joaquin Phoenix
“I know how I could beat myself: by not being disciplined, by slacking, by not dedicating myself to my craft, by not working hard, by not listening, by thinking I know it all - short like that.” ThinkingKnowsHardKnow HowListeningBeatsCraftsKnow It AllSlacking Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“You know how it is in the symphony when you are listening to the symphony, the last notes die away, and there's often a beat of silence in the auditorium before the applause begins. It's a very full and pregnant silence. Now theology should bring us to live into that silence, into that pregnant pause.” KnowsShouldLastsDiesSilenceKnow HowListeningBeatsNotesTheologyPregnantPausesSymphonyApplauseAuditoriums Author:Karen Armstrong
“I think a lot of people can learn from listening to hip hop. It ain't always about beats and rhymes.” PeopleThinkingListeningBeatsHip HopHipsHopsRhyme Author:Raekwon
“I was thinking a little bit about this very thing - poetry and music - the other day when I was listening to Lucinda Williams. The way she sings is very emotive, and there is a kind of drag to her articulation: she sings behind the beat, sort of like she's being pulled along by the song a little, or is in resistance to it.” ThinkingWayKindLittlesSongBitsBehindsListeningLittle BitBeatsResistanceDragArticulationPoetry And Music Author:Matthew Zapruder
“Kevin [Drew] beat me to the punch because when he first sent "Sister OK" and I'm listening to it, it took me to a place that I had not been to in a long time. It took me to a place when you're a teenager. I understand it all now, but in a moment of confusion, in a moment of trying to find some kind of solid ground in an environment that was quicksand in my life, it's that first line just kills me all the time: "Well it's just that your sister said you'd be OK."” TryingFirstsWellsKindLongSaidMomentsLinesEnvironmentListeningLong TimeBeatsConfusionTeenagerKill MeKevinQuicksand Author:Andy Kim
“His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy’s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips’ touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete.” MindHeartMomentsFacesGirlStarsWhiteVisionForeverFlowerListeningBeatsBreathsLipsFasterIncarnationForksDaisiesHeart BeatThis GirlTuningLiterary LoveGreat Gatsby LoveGatsby Love Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald