Quotes About Rhythm

I like the blues a lot. I grew up on it.

I love funk! That's the music I grew up on.

I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

When I do a press roll, I use the traditional grip. Sometimes I flip it around; for a louder crack on the two and four, I use the new grip.

A great way to get your rhythm playing together is to work with a drummer, preferably someone that has a good groove and plays solidly in time.

I like to groove a little bit!

You know, we had that groove; I didn't feel no way.

I just love a great groove.

When the band would leave the stage, and then the audience would just take over, and keep the groove goin'.

I discovered my love for dancing when I was barely 5-6 years of age. Whenever I would hear any music playing, I would automatically groove to it.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.

Music is a big thing for me when I'm shooting. It gets me in a groove.

My playing is always just a little on top of the beat. I can't lay down the kind of groove that Brad Wilk can. I'd really have to lay back to do that; it just doesn't feel natural to me.

You really don't get into a groove until you play two or three games.

I have worked with the tavil and the mridangam all my artistic life. My style does have a strong grounding in rhythm.

You have to grow with the music.

Bass guitar is the engine of the band.

A lot of the time, I will write a guitar riff first. I don't write drum riffs first.

I saw the Bangles before I was in a band. I really liked their rhythm. That was right when I was trying to learn how to play guitar. I was really frustrated because I couldn't strum, and then I saw Susannah Hoffs do this cool strum on a song, and it was my goal after that to learn how to do that strum.

I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.

Even Angus says that Malcolm is a better guitarist than he is. He makes the drummer's job so easy, he's a metronome.