Artie Shaw Quotes

When I say dance music, it's anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It's not relying on melody in the same way; it's more about rhythm.

To me, dance music is a lot of space - to listen to other things than melodies. I think club music and dance music really require a different way of listening.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

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

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

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.

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

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.

I like rock music that has melody, but it also makes you wanna get up and dance.

I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

I was always attracted to music that moved people. Whether it be gospel, R&B, folk, hip-hop, pop, alternative rock - whatever moved people, whatever made a crowd just get lost in the moment.

With 'Under the Pressure,' I just found two chords I liked, and built it up, did like a ten-minute drum pattern.

I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.

The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

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

I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.