Quotes About Rhythm

I just enjoy the sound as I hear it in everything around me. The high and low frequencies of sound bewitch me. Whether I am in a shop, in the bathroom or listening to noise that my fans make... everything is music to my ears and drives me. I just put all these things in rhythm when I'm playing.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I love playing with language and the rhythm of language - for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.

I can dance for, like, four or five hours nonstop without even drinking water. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.

One very important side of my playing lies in rhythm; I have a very percussive style. It's one I've developed with Dream Theater over the years, and requires the guitar to be very locked into the rhythm of the drums... way more than what would normally entail.

But I am Northern myself, and there is a certain rhythm of Northern speech that is very comical: that combination of the choice of language and the speech rhythm, which in itself is very funny.

The Nicholas Brothers were the best tap-dancers. I'm not talking about their flash-dancing, I'm talking about tap-dancing. They were really saying something with their feet.

The bass should be the note of the bass drum, and then you've got the engine of the band that everything else builds on. Everything else, the guitar, the keyboards, is a colour.

'My Friends Over You' has two guitars, but if you listen to us live, it's the same... I know how to hit a rhythm note and play lead at the same time.

I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

I try to convey the musical notes through dance, take on the music.

It's not about the individual notes. It's about the energy.

In rock n' roll, there are notes that aren't like notes. They're something in between, and it's the way you scoop into it.

I'm not the fastest drummer in the world, but I'm very into dynamics and knowing that there's space in between the notes and you got to breathe.

When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.

To me, music is a river. I have lived my life beside the river. Every day, I get up and look at the river. I watch it and notice when it rises and falls.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that.

If I don't have headphones, I can't run. Nowadays, I listen to Drake, Future, and Boosie.

Any Michael Jackson song will make any dancer go nuts.

If you cut off your arm instead of going 'spurt, spurt, spurt' wouldn't it, like, go nuts? Or would it go with the beat of your heart?

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

Apart from the occasional bit of dad dancing, I really can't dance.