Miles Davis Quotes

My playing is always just a little on top of the beat. I can't lay down the kind of groove that Brad Wilk can. I'd really have to lay back to do that; it just doesn't feel natural to me.

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

The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

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

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

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.

The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

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.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

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.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

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.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

Comedy and music are so similar because it's all about timing.

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

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

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.