Quotes About Rhythm

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

I actually grew up break-dancing. When you break-dance you listen to hip-hop and rap, so I've been listening to that music since I was a kid.

Writing rap songs is about flow, about one word blending seamlessly into the next and creating a thing that is possible to perform in a way that feels natural.

I really like R&B more than rap.

I love rap music.

I love rap, and I try to write a bit like a rapper, to have a flow.

Sometimes I will slow down the beat for one bar on purpose, just to see if the rapper can adapt his flow and stay on beat.

I know a beat is good for me when I can just start rapping. It's usually hard for me to do that.

It's rare that scenes last more than 2 or 3 minutes, so sound helps segue from one scene to another.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.

I feel like when I do some dance moves during the week or at the house, I'm quicker on my feet. I can react quicker just from dancing.

For me, if I can dance and not really realise I'm keeping fit, but I am then great, dance is a good one.

We may not realise it, but dancing is a form of meditation.

I realised how important it is to have your body movement, your diction, tonality, dialogue delivery and to be in rhythm because everything is musical.

When you have good writing, the rhythm of the scene is very apparent. What the scene demands is very clear.

The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.

You can have the best riff in the world, but if the drums behind it just ain't vibing it, it's not gonna be the greatest riff, right? So you've gotta have someone there that can really bring that to life.

Once you kind of get into that rhythm where you grab a lot of rebounds every game, it kind of gets easier.

'In the Grace of Your Love' is a beautiful, eerie dance song.

I feel like dance, by its nature, goes so easily to grand and beautiful.

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.

Shaft' is a great country song.