Quotes About Rhythm

I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

You can't beat two guitars, bass, and drums.

You can't beat 2 guitars, bass, and drums.

Certainly that's what I like in a lot of the music that I listen to, kind of a sexual energy. Guitars and rock get it across best for me.

There are certain guys in the league that get their rhythm off their dribble.

Do you go to gym and exercise to music? Before Chubby Checker, that never happened.

Even though I'm a gymnast, I've always loved dancing.

I'm from the Caribbean, and I love the dance hall sound.

When it comes to dance hall music, I definitely listened to a lot of Vybz Kartel growing up or Gyptian and Mavado.

The pace of words is the pace of walking, and the pace of walking is also the pace of thought.

Dancing: the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.

I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played.

All music is the blues. All of it.

Life is a lot like jazz… it's best when you improvise.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

Liverpool have won everything but never a World Championship. I am sure in the future they will once again make the effort to win the tournament. They have had good rhythm in the Premier League this season.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

I love the noise of my wooden clogs on my wooden floor. Dancers wear clogs. They're good for you.

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.