Quotes About Rhythm

We're falling into a place where melody is somewhat lacking in music. Everybody feels like, okay, too much melody or too much harmony, and it kind of goes over people's heads; they don't understand it.

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

When I singed 'Love Dose' with Yo Yo Honey Singh, I heard the song and got hooked to it.

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

You always will be singing a song or humming a line or a melody.

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I usually write to the beat. Really, the beat can make the song itself.

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

Often I listen to songs on repeat for days and days at a time. There's something hypnotic or meditative, and it mirrors the way that I am putting the sentence together, going back over the same phrases again and again.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that. For me, it's a kind of line. It's a rhythm. It's something musical.

Honestly there's nothing soothing, nothing consoling like being part of a collective, dancing to music.

That's the thing about jazz: it's free flowing, it comes from your soul.

There's no separation between electronic music and acoustic music. It's all one thing. Each song has its own heartbeat. Each song has its own soul.

I grew up on soul music. I was a dancing little creep.

We got really excited by Motown and early '60s soul music that was fun sounding.

We're Midwestern guys who grew up listening to soul music.

You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.

Nineties music was what I grew up with, and I want to make music that's soulful but that you can also dance and drive to.

My personal music style is very Latin and very soulful. It's dance meets hip-hop.

If something grooves and you like the sound, then that's all you need.

As a musician, language is almost like another instrument. Every word has a sound.