Quotes About Rhythm

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Color is vibration like music; everything is vibration.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

A surprising proportion of mathematicians are accomplished musicians. Is it because music and mathematics share patterns that are beautiful?

Some people have lives; some people have music.

Music is the chalk to the blackboard of life. Without it everything is a blank slate

Music is organized sound.

You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

When I dance I am really meditating rather then performing for an audience. I am completely absorbed by the music and the steps I choose to respond to the music.

All music is the blues. All of it.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

It is the body, subject to the harmony of the steps it is executing, which speaks. And it speaks to the heart in as direct a language as does music.

I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

Taking people on a journey is the fundamental element of underground dance music. I don't sell records.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

Writing is the same as music. It's in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don't play is as important as what you do say.

What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.

When I dance, it's incredible. I can't describe it, there's no words. You just tap into your mojo and you just go.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.