Quotes About Rhythm

I don't play beats. I hate playing beats. I'm an orchestration drummer. I'm a musical drummer.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band... easy to listen to.

Hip-hop was fast, originally. It was always fast music.

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

All New Orleans music is based off dance music, even jazz.

That's the way New Orleans is. It's driven by the music.

I always have a little bit of Brazil and New Orleans in my band.

Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.

Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy.

I'm so-so on the blastbeat. A couple of my mates play that style. I'm not a huge fan, no - and the only reason for that is because it distracts me from other elements of the dynamics. It's a little overpowering!

We move in spasms.

Her heartbeat was in her hands, her heart beat the way she moved her head, her whole body was her heart beating.

Oh, I'm not a percussionist, I just like to hit things.

Todo lo que vive lleva el sonido consigo!

The pause is as important as the note.

The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.

I feel like I'm running in a figure of eight, don't know if I'm coming or going, early or late.

Energy cardiology suggests that the heart is the conductor that keeps all the cells playing the same score.3

The night is just a part of the day

every movement needs to pause at times

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.