Quotes About Rhythm

Sabes, Leticia? Eres la persona más alegre que he conocido, todo te divierte, cocinas cantando y pasas la aspiradora con ritmo de rumba. —Así somos los salvadoreños. Antes decían que El Salvador era el país de la sonrisa, pero supongo que desde la guerra civil eso de andar sonriendo se usa menos.

Long track is more of a symphony... You're out there and you want to get in the zone.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and the rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words, we are continually changing the score.

Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season.

Here's a new day. 0 Pendulum move slowly!

Dancing is the body made poetic.

Let that day be lost to us on which we did not dance once I

If you can walk, you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul.

Architecture is frozen music.

Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

Habit is a great deadener.

I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

A jazz tune, melody, or composition is usually based on either a traditional twelve-bar, eight-bar, or four-bar blues chorus or on the thirty-two-bar chorus of the American popular song.

We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.

I tend to think about so many different things on a recording. I'll be trying to tune into what the drummer's doing, trying to keep everyone playing the groove and other things like making sure the piano's in a nice pocket.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

I don't know how to carry a tune.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

Thomas, my 15-year-old, is effectively my editor, I've always trusted his voice, more than anybody, on the strip for years. He has one of those ears that's just tuned to the rhythm of humor, so if he says something's not funny, my stomach just hurts because I know he's right, and it's already been drawn.

When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.