Quotes About Rhythm

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

Once you get into a routine of eating healthy, it hurts twice as much when you fall off the wagon. But it's nice to have a few bites of something you like. I'm not a sweets person, but I love pasta and pizza - oh, buddy!

For some reason, ever since I was a little kid, I wake with the most energy of the day, and it slowly declines from there.

Music is everything to me. I wake up and go to bed with it. I listen to all genres, depending on my mood.

Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

Dance was something that came to me before I could even walk or talk.

Alice Walker's words have such rhythm and scream music.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync.

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps... this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

Some songs I rap before the beat even play and I enjoy doing that. I like walking the beat down.

Part of being an actor is the rhythm of the life of being an actor, and that involves coming together with a group of people, making something together that is intense and requires a lot of intimacy, and then walking away from it with the possibility that you will never see any of those people again.

I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.

If you have pendulum clocks on the wall and start them all at different times, after a while the pendulums will all swing in synchronicity. The same thing happens with heart cells in a Petri dish: They start beating in rhythm even when they're not touching one another.

If for half a year you only get 10 minutes to play from the bench, then you have no rhythm.

I've always been a big fan of the American soul sound.

I'm a bass player and I'm a drummer - I'm a big fan of bass players.

I'm a big one for music.

I like a bass drum. A big one.

Music is a big part of my life.