Quotes About Rhythm

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

Life aboard the beast was bizarre; the creature rocked from side to side, or undulated, but very soon the rhythm of it became compelling, needed. The Roughtys called it Beraftiel; they considered it to be a god, although they knew that a few generations forward, it would die and have to be burned and eaten. Then a new god would have to be found, or the family would die out.

I released myself to the flow of the world's rhythm, not struggling to search, but simply letting my instinct guide me.

Little time, little time, little time, sang the rhythm of the pounding hooves.

In my life, water has had the character of punctuation.

The word 'figure' from choreography . . . means something like a momentary attitude of the body or a fragment of a dance.

The earth cannot move without music. The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz.

Music is so huge to soccer, to my life, to working out. I usually have headphones when I'm cleaning the house or making dinner.

For me, soccer was a dance.

That's what hip-hop is: It's sociology and English put to a beat, you know.

I'm into the old school. I listen to rock, soft rock, jazz, old school R&B.

The lunar cycle within the solar season: that kind of syncopated rhythm is what life relates to.

A band is as solid as its drummer is.

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

I try to make my flow sound like a John Coltrane solo.

You hear a great Art Blakey drum solo or Elvin Jones, and you can tell when they're taking a breath. You can tell when they're loading up for something big. There's just this humanity in it, and I think that's important as well.

I'd be very honored to be the ambassador to drum solos.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.

My favorite solos are all very melodic. Those are the ones that are the most memorable.

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

Some things have never changed in India. Melody, for one. The sound has changed, the rhythm has changed, and lyrics have become more contemporary.