Quotes About Rhythm

I listen to jazz and gospel... yeah that's basically what I listen to.

I'm a big hip-hop fan since being a kid. It was the first music that spoke to me and made me feel like, 'Yeah.'

Oh yeah, dancing's part of my soul. I enjoy it, it makes people happy, and it makes me happy.

Since I was a child, I was yearning to learn about percussion because that's what I loved.

Anyone can be a DJ but it's understanding how to read a crowd and keeping them on the floor is what takes years of experience.

Folk music is the heart of the Indian music scene for several years.

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

I want to speak in the tradition of rhythm and blues and soul music, but also push how it's dressed and how it's delivered to the audience. And hopefully that gets embraced by as many people as possible, but the goal isn't necessarily to speak to everyone. The goal is to get it out as exact as it is in my head.

I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before.

I grew up dancing salsa - you know, a traditional Puerto Rican dance.

I've been doing long-distance backpacking since 2002 when I hiked the Appalachian Trail. You start to calm down and relax and get into the slower rhythm of nature.

Black people lived right by the railroad tracks, and the train would shake their houses at night. I would hear it as a boy, and I thought: I'm gonna make a song that sounds like that.

I'm not classically trained or anything, but I'll rip up a dance floor.

Having trained as a dancer growing up, I love any dance related events.

I don't know much about pop music, and we sample music from all different cultures. I was trained in West African dance, so my sense of rhythm when I move is obviously informed by that, and I obviously sing in Portuguese.

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.

I have rhythm, but I'm not a trained dancer.

My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

Trains had the greatest bass sound in the world.

I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.

For trance music to be good, it has to sneak up on you.

I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.

In 'Dancing Drums' I interweave all my mediums into what I like to call, simply as 'trance.'

Motion is tranquility.