Quotes About Rhythm

Most of the time when musicians get together, there's always that variance - always someone's a little ahead of the beat, someone's a little behind, you just hope it meshes.

Time can tick when there is no clock.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

A dance to the music of time.

For years I did take my time, but that was because I hated waiting to hit shots - I adopted a pace where I didn't have to stand by my ball and wait.

It ["Begin the Beguine"] became such a hit that it superseded anything that any band had ever had. It was the first time that a so-called swing band played something melodic and still gave it a beat.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

More than the sound of my own beating heart, I miss the sound of a ticking clock. Time passes. It must pass.

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

The way we metabolize our experience of time influences our biological clock.

I have an erratic drummer for anybody who's just listening to this, he can keep time, but just in spurts.

I found that you don't have to do drugs to have a great time. Music is a great drug on its own.

Time your actions so you're not fighting against the currents but moving with them.

I think music all the time.

And you cycle throughout so that you do about five to six cycles throughout the night. And we spend more time in REM later on in the night than we do earlier on.

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.

Music keeps time and defies time, simultaneously.

(I measure time by how a body sways.)

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

In a lot of African instruments, you find a rattle, and sound engineers have a hard time making sense of it.

Everything has a place and time.

I'm structured with time.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.