Quotes About Rhythm

Music is basically melody, harmony, and rhythm. But people can do much more with music than that. It can be very descriptive in all kinds of ways, all walks of life.

I listen to Zedd or Tiesto. I like listening to that type of music before I'm pitching.

One day, the dance charts will be the biggest chart in the music world. Because we all need to dance. This planet will be a fun planet when the judges in court will end the day with a dance!

My role on the planet is to bring the power of sound.

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

It's about knowing how to make a groove happen and keep it going so others can play off it.

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

I just play drums, mate.

I play football like I dance.

One of my favorite things to do is to play music really loud and dance my butt off in the morning. I'll do it alone in my apartment. You can't have a bad day after that.

Whatever I've got going on, I play music to accompany me.

I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.

James Brown was one of the first artists who found four bars that he liked and played them the entire way through, and then he just added to it vocally.

The lousy guitar player in any band is the bass player.

I'm a bass player and I love the bass.

We have music playing at home, day and night.

People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like looking at a heavy metal drummer. I mean, they're playing with the same amount of ferocity. It's not to say all jazz is like that.

We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

Watching people move to nice music is very pleasant.

It's not that what LCD Soundsystem and Juan MacLean do is necessarily simple, but they are basic loops and beats and songs that are just pleasurable in a really basic way.

Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.

I plug into a lot of old rock & roll. Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis - I love all that stuff.