Rhythm Quotes

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha!

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

I'm more into beats than rhymes. I'm a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm.

Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.

So we take a lot of pride in that. It's really on us to turn this thing around. I think this last month we've done just that. We've pointed ourself in the direction that we want to be, and I think we're starting to head towards that. Right now we're in a nice rhythm.

An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.

By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction.

Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

In order to accommodate to change and to the contrast of phenomena, the intellect does not require any shocks and inner upheavals; it is only through such upheavals that the more conservative mind could accommodate to the metropolitan rhythm of events.

I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.