Quotes About Rhythm

I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.

People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

I listen to music that doesn't have words. I love Kygo - he's tropical house, and that's my stuff!

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie.

The radio is playing jazz, and I listen to the sound of the trumpet playing a solo until I become that sound.

There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

I have great samples of my drums and I try to program them pretty much how I want to play them, try and make it feel natural even though it's programmed.

What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

American movies show you how to fight and break armsand necks. I want to make the action in my movies like dancing.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

Drum Competitions are called such because no one wants to win the big Beat Off.

If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!

There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.

All I want you to do is rock. That'll be forever, man.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

When subjects go to sleep later in their body temperature cycles, they actually sleep less, even though they have been awake longer.

But we all know that, at least in principle, sync can be persistent without being periodic. Think of the musicians in an orchestra. All the violins come in at the same time, and stay in sync throughout. Yet they are not periodic: They do not play the same passage over and over again.

When a guitar string is plucked or when children jiggle a jump rope, the shape that appears is a sine wave. The ripples on a pond, the ridges of sand dunes, the stripes of a zebra—all are manifestations of nature's most basic mechanism of pattern formation: the emergence of sinusoidal structure from a background of bland uniformity.

So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

There's no religion but sex and music.

Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.