Robert Fripp Quotes

I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.

Everybody's been blessed with something, and my gift is my timing. Let's face it, it's all about keeping time and having a groove.

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

When I watch drummers, I always want to see energy. It's not about the proficiency of the musicianship; I'm just into the vibe and excitement of it. With drums, it's such a primeval thing.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

A melody without the right rhythm hardly exists.

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

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.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

Music drives you. It wakes you up, it gets you pumping. And, at the end of the day, the correct tune will chill you down.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.