Quotes About Rhythm

'Uptown Funk' has all the ingredients of the funk that I love.

When I was growing up and listening to bands like the Dave Clark Five, the groove was what initially got me going. I really like that funky, heavy groove.

I know a little bit how it is coming back from an injury, trying to find your rhythm.

One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always been that way in my playing, really.

It's the bounce in go-go that inspires me.

Beats are really inspiring. They always make me want to write something over them.

The relationship in Pantera and with Damageplan is the opposite of the traditional rhythm section. It's me and Dime, not the bass, locking in always. Dime's such a strong rhythm player that we just walk in, and we're good to go. We've been playing together forever, and when he goes somewhere, I instinctively know where he's going.

The harmonica is a great instrument.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

Drums were my first instrument.

There are a lot of cases where I'm using, if not an acoustic guitar, an electric guitar more as a rhythm instrument. Rather than blasting away, I use it to create more of an acoustic feel.

My favorite instrument is a bemrimbau. I play that every night.

I love percussive instrumentation.

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance.

Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.

Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

Time crawls on when you're waiting for the song to start, so dance alone to the beat of your heart.

Los relojes llevan la misma cadencia, Y las noches tienen las mismas estrellas.)

The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

Being in company forces one to jostle, hamper, walk at the wrong speed for others. When walking it's essential to find your own basic rhythm, and maintain it. The right basic rhythm is the one that suits you, so well that you don't tire and can keep it up for ten hours. But it is highly specific and exact. So that when you are forced to adjust to someone else's pace, to walk faster or slower than usual, the body follows badly.