Quotes About Rhythm

Plus I am being hounded by all the fabulous new drummers, Bill Stewart at the head of the pack.

I'm pretty into music. Anything with music I love... I'm really big on lyrical content plus a good beat.

You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

It's always been my dream to have a monster rhythm section that's just all groove and pocket.

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving.

A really good poem is full of music.

The main thing a poem ought to be is musical. It should be rhythmic. You should hear it as a musical piece in your head as you're writing it.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

I'm trying to make the poems as musical as I can - from the inception. So that whether they're read on the page, or people read them aloud, or I read them aloud, the musicality will be kind of a given.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

I used to enjoy using dots where they would be least expected, not at the end of a sentence but in the middle, creating the effect... of a skipped beat. It seemed to me the mind reacted - first!... in dots, dashes, and exclamation points, then rationalized, drew up a brief, with periods.

I love salsa. I use to take salsa classes when I was a little girl with my mom.

I like to listen the blues and some classical.

Indian classical music is in my blood.

I think clay has more rhythm so I can feel more balls better.

I've listened to musicians who say that using a metronone makes you robotic, that it decreases your 'feel.' That's ridiculous. Either you have feel or you don't. Feel is one of those intangibles that can't be taught. But if you do have feel, using a metronome will allow you to play cleaner - and that'll make your 'feel' have more, well, 'feeling.'

There's a battle rhythm, a body clock that tells you it's time for football. For me, it's always I know when I get my first football dream. That's my body clock telling me it's time to compete.

I usually wake up around 7:30 A.M. without an alarm clock. I wake up naturally because I'm huge on sleep. I believe it's the No. 1 thing you can do if you're trying to create a better life.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

Our life is a combination of a certain amount of energy and a certain amount of time.

Something about cactuses and rock music is a good combination.

If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

Comedy is music.