Gina Schock Quotes

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

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

I ain't got no rhythm.

I'm a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

I like to listen to my iPod and also play music. I've been doing percussion since I was eight or nine. Rhythm is crucial in long jump but also in life.

Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at.

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

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

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

All the time, I play with a rhythm; if I'm too far out of the rhythm, I feel out of place.

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

People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

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

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.

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.

The one thing I do know is that I'm the best Taylor Hawkins drummer there is, and that is all I can hope to be. And when it comes to music, musicianship and skill, there is no such thing as better or worse because so much is personal opinion, and I can see that now.

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

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

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.

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

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

My talent for playing the drums was a gift from God.