Savion Glover Quotes

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

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

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

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

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

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

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

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 have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

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

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.

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

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

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.

I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way.

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

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.

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

It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

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

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

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.

You really have to play with the space in a riff so it can be allowed to breathe.