Backbeat Co Quotes & Sayings

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar. — Bill Nighy

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That's where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and where you will go. — Rebecca Solnit

I'm fine. Will put his hand on Amanda's foot again. He could feel a steady pulse near her ankle. He'd worked for this woman most of his career but still knew very little about her. She lived in a condo in the heart of Buckhead. She had been on the job longer than he had been alive, which put her age in the mid-sixties. She kept her salt-and-pepper hair coiffed in the shape of a football helmet and wore pantyhose with starched blue jeans. She had a sharp tongue, more degrees than a college professor, and she knew that his name was Wilbur even though he'd had it legally changed when he entered college and every piece of paper the GBI had on file listed his legal name as William Trent. — Karin Slaughter

I'm almost a black singer. And without the backbeat, it's singer/songwriter. There's a definite choice to be made there, every time. And I love the sex of singing with a beat; I like the sexiness of it. I think it's really where I'm from. — John Waite

There's something beautifully friendly and elevating about a bunch of guys playing music together. This wonderful little world that is unassailable. It's really teamwork, one guy supporting the others, and it's all for one purpose, and there's no flies in the ointment, for a while. And nobody conducting, it's all up to you. It's really jazzthat's the big secret. Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat. — Keith Richards

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues ... No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though
that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan. — Sarah Vowell

I would like to do a sports movie. — Sean Durkin

The sound of his purging next to me, long and deep and often was like a backbeat throughout the night. He's been wrestling with visions of the spirit world, alien landscapes like inverted Photoshop jungle lakes, plants merging into the sky and insects and beasts alive with the sweat and pulse of life, all of us cuaght up in a genomic swirl. — Rak Razam

Kiss is a Fourth of July fireworks show with a backbeat. — Gene Simmons

My heart's gratitude
Is
My life's plenitude. — Sri Chinmoy

Hope you don't mind my taste in music. I like a little backbeat when I launch. (Devyn)
Just wait until you're in battle with him. That shit'll make your ears bleed. (Sway) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others — Bruce Lee

People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system. — Max Hastings

There are methods to creating a mayhem that sounds different from your usual mayhem. Because mayhem and a heavy drum backbeat end up sounding like Green Day or something. But if you put a different beat within it to create some air and lightness, the chaos comes through better. — Nick Cave

I can handle ups and downs. — James Rosenquist

Pull love closely around you
and snuggle into its bliss. — Hemat Malak

It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair. — Wm. Paul Young

My thing is, once you start to put a backbeat on your music or something that has a machine in it, you have popularity, but you lose the flexibility. And you lose a richness. — Wynton Marsalis