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Quotes About Rhythm

Las costumbres, Andrée, son formas concretas del ritmo, son la cuota del ritmo que nos ayuda a vivir.
~ Julio Cortazar
One could not do without repetition in life, like the beating of the heart, but it was also true that the beating of the heart was not all there was to life.
~ K?b? Abe
Rhythm is the basis of life, not steady forward progress. The forces of creation, destruction, and preservation have a whirling, dynamic interaction.
~ Kabbalah
Time itself comes in drops.
~ William James
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
~ Lee Konitz
To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!
~ Dimebag Darrell
It's like James Brown used to say... I don't know, but whatever I play it's got to be funky.
~ Curtis Jones
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
~ David Lee Roth
I love James Brown, and as a baby, I was always dancing to James Brown.
~ Maika Monroe
I like jamming to rap.
~ Bill Ward
Work out to music that's fun for you. I like a good beat; something from Jay-Z or Eminem.
~ David Kirsch
Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.
~ Alan Vega
There is no blood in jazz drumming, and there are no bullies in jazz drumming.
~ Neil Peart
My music is jazz.
~ Yusef Lateef
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
~ Clint Eastwood
I'm a great jazz fan.
~ Vidal Sassoon
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
~ Ken Burns
I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
~ Damien Chazelle
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
~ Herb Alpert
And I used to listen to a lot of jazz.
~ Debra Wilson
It seems that jazz is more cerebral and more mathematical in a sense.
~ Rita Coolidge
All the classic jazz players all sang and a lot of 'em sang blues.
~ Mose Allison
I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
~ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I've always loved jazz.
~ Rita Coolidge