Rhythm Quotes

You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

In pop or rock you can make a fast song or a slow one, but in disco there is really just the one rhythm.

I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

I didn't think of myself as a lead player, especially when we did live shows, because me and Keith used to switch around all the time. He'd take a lead, I'd play rhythm. Sometimes even within one song. It wasn't strict and regimented.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.

Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler.'

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

I Got Rhythm really put me on the map.