Quotes About Rhythm

I love music - in my playing days, I was always the team DJ.

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

It just depends on what's asked of me, but normally I'm looking to make the right, easy play. So if I can get a teammate a layup, if I can get him an open shot, I just think that gets the ball moving and I feel like it makes everybody feel good and we get into a better offensive rhythm.

Music is the poetry of the air.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

The bassist -- always the bassist.

Bowie's five best albums came all in a five-year rush: Station to Station (1976), Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Lodger (1979), Scary Monsters (1980). What do these albums have in common? The rhythm section: Dennis Davis on drums, George Murray on bass, and Carlos Alomar on guitar.

Listening to music—it takes time. Human bodies respond to music over time in different ways, and that's where the surprises are.

well formed. 'Angi', Graham's most famous composition, first appeared on 3/4 AD, a 1961 Topic EP split with blues guitarist Alexis Korner. Based around a deceptively easy four-chord sequence, the plucking right hand appears to do the work of a jazz trio, the thumb maintaining a steady bass pulse while the rest of the fingers tweak out the tune's ruminative syncopations. Combined

scat to rock steady

Life is not all glided out to the measures of a Strauss waltz.

One, two, three / Buckle my shoe.

Dancing is moving to the music without stepping on anyone's toes, pretty much the same as life.

This day Time winds th' exhausted chain,To run the twelvemonth's length again.

There is something mournful and uneasy about waking up late at night on a moving train. The wheels clicked a bony rhythm, the engine growled like a distant Leviathan, and from time to time the whistle sounded a cry so lonesome it seemed to speak for the whole wide moonless night.

One of the most important elements in the rhythm of drama is suspense

the right kind of a clock. One that did not hurry the hours away but ticked them off deliberately.

In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.

Inmediatamente, sus miradas enardecidas se fundieron de tal manera que quien los hubiera visto sólo habría notado una sola mirada, un solo movimiento rítmico y sensual, una sola respiración agitada y un mismo deseo

We're performing the steps of our oldest dance. And even in this strange, sad, suspended state, I know that we are elegant at it.

I like to think of music as an emotional science.

Life is water, dancing to the tune of solids.