Quotes About Rhythm

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.

I have a sound. It's called 'funk mixed with stank.' That's what I do.

I love mixing house and disco with anything bass.

There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

If I think something's funny, I try to mold it into a joke as soon as possible. Once I have a joke, I say it a million different ways on stage until I find a rhythm and it feels like it's as good as it can be.

Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria.

I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

We've always known that music is good for improving your mood.

I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.

There are only couple songs that you can just hear and it'll put you in a great mood.

Music, I feel like, affects people's moods.

Everyone loves to dance. I've realize that's a part of what I do more and more every day.

I still like to play the blues more than anything else.

The most difficult thing to pull off in a musical is the choreography.

I've had the chance to watch Metallica's James Hetfield from the side of the stage night after night, listening to his monitors, and his playing is so perfect. Slash is an amazing lead guitarist, but when you listen to his rhythm playing, you can hear how he pulls everything together with such a great feel, which is the most important thing.

I love playing bass. It's mostly what I play in Divine Fits.

You still have to enjoy the tour games. If you go out there and just go through the motions, you can easily get into bad habits, you lose a bit of rhythm or a bit of form and then things can go pretty bad pretty quickly.

Especially when I'm in the gym, I get really motivated by hip-hop.

Whether it's soundtracking a moment in my life or just motivating me to hit the gym, I constantly have music playing. Even if it's just in my head.

I love funk and soul and Motown.

'Head Over Boots' is a shuffle, but it's more of a Motown laid-back shuffle than, say, a Dwight Yoakam shuffle.

My mom taught me every dance move I've ever known to the Motown hits.

I grew up in a jazz household. They made me listen to jazz before I could hear my Motown.