Quotes About Rhythm

When writing, I'm not thinking about war, even if I'm writing about it. I'm thinking about sentences, rhythm and story. So the focus, when I'm working, even if it's on a story that takes place at war, is not on bombs or bullets. It's on the story.

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

I love Punjabi Folk.

I started learning Bharatnatyam from the age of three. I have also learnt folk dance.

I can beatbox. Well, sort of. I have one beat that I can do, but people get fooled.

The calendar and the clock are all set by football season and the offseason.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

When I dance, I forget everything else and just feel completely happy.

I forget myself when I dance.

Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.

Intermittently in my concert format, I sing a little jazz, a little scatting.

I'm a huge salsa fan. I actually have a salsa on my album, 'Formula Vol. 2,' featuring Marc Anthony.

It takes a little time to return to a Formula One car after 15 months away and to get back in the rhythm again, but after about 20 laps, I was feeling really comfortable and enjoying myself.

Kathak and Bharatnatyam are my forte.

I've never found that it jars to go back and forth.

I travel a lot. I'll go back and forth, you know, West Coast-East Coast, but it's separated by segments. So it's not a daily thing.

Fortunately I'm Latin, and I'm born with a little bit of rhythm by default. It's in the DNA. I have that going for me, but I've never been considered one of the world's greatest dancers.

I dance as best I can. I try to let the music flow freely through my legs.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.

We all know this: Music is such a fundamental part of life.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

I've always gravitated towards the beats, obviously. And when I was growing up, I always loved funk music or even - dare I say it - disco.

Well, I try to be as funky as I need to get.