Quotes About Rhythm

It's cool how to see how my creative juices have shown themselves when they're not being used for 'Euphoria' every day. I'm trying to find a new rhythm as to how I'm going to externalize my artistic energies. It's a moment of re-formation.

Once I get a rhythm going, I can jump those hot dogs down.

With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump.

When I write, I'm talking to myself constantly to make sure that it sounds OK; it has kind of a nice rhythm and a nice jump to it.

I just hear a beat and start mumbling words. I just hear sounds and rhythms, and it just kind of comes intuitively. Formatting a song, figuring out a flow, how I respond to the beat.

For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just kind of come across in your rhythm and the way that you lock in on the music.

As you get going in the game you just kind of go along and you play the game.

When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny's Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of '90s R&B.

My little boy loves mambo, and my daughter, besides Justin Bieber, likes bachata - in our house, we're always singing.

Start dancing immediately. Run to the closest dance studio, and study the style of dance of the music you love. If you love hip-hop music, go to a hip-hop class. If you love salsa, take a salsa class. It will become infectious and you'll keep going back.

I dance a lot and keep dancing and keep moving.

Dancing has always helped in keeping my fitness levels high. When I was in school and college, I used to dance a lot. It helped me stay healthy.

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

I'm a percussionist, so that's most of what I know when I attack a record. Melodically, knowing the keys - my first love - that makes the perfect blend.

Classical music gives musicians a kick. But African music gives everyone a kick.

I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.

Dancing sometimes you just get your groove on. I can dance. I'm kinda like Michael Jackson.

Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.

You gain know-how from playing matches because every moment of a football match has its own rhythm.

I've always been a jazz fan, but I don't write much about jazz, because I don't have the chops. But it's really, really hard to write about improvised instrumental music when you don't have a good knowledge of harmony and can't identify rhythm signatures very easily either.

Into La Bombonera danced the most agile, rhythmic, beautiful, sensuous people I have ever seen. And that was just the fans.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

That wasn't so bad," I decided, after downing the shot. Maybe I was getting my rhythm. "Because you threw it over your shoulder," Scarface told me, looking smug. "Did not." I looked behind me, only to see an outraged vamp with fey wine dripping down his face. "Oops." "It was for luck," Ray said defensively, wrapping both my hands around a glass. "Drink!" I drank.

When I point my fingers at the keys, the music springs straight out of me. Right hand playing notes sharp as tongues, telling stories while the smooth buttery rhythms back me up on the left.