Quotes About Rhythm

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.

In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.

In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.

As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace.

I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling.

If you skate too slow, it's not feeling comfortable at all.

When I've been playing my best golf, I feel like everything's so slow.

Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do something large against this - and this set up a kind of opposition.

If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.

I like mixing things up. That makes it more interesting. I love mixing in slower funk with what I do. I'll add drum and bass and put my foot to the gas pedal and press it to the floor.

As an actor, you have times that are bustling, and then you have the quieter, slower times. I definitely had some of those.

The best times are when the time on stage becomes much slower and the movement much bigger - in that case, everything seems to flow. This state does not happen very often, but when it does, it is a magic kind of pleasure.

It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm.

I love creating music that makes people dance, smile and have a good time.

There is no point to samba if it doesn't make you smile.

I want to make people dance, I want to make people smile, and I want my music to get played in clubs.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

At an early age I was listening to BB King, what have you. Ray Charles, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy Mcgriff, you dig? With the obvious Marvin Gayes and the Motown records.

I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian's field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

My song 'Smooth Operator,' I think that's a real simple, easy, sing-a-long kind of song. It's not too complicated.

Archer has a loose-limbed approach in a run-up that is not very long. He gets into a good position at the crease and releases the ball late from a very high action. He snaps the ball down at genuine pace. He has rhythm to his bowling.

I played in the percussion section 4th grade through high school - snare and timpani mostly.