Paul Hirsch Quotes

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

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

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.

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

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

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

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

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

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 see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture.

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

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

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

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

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

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.

We were built to be rhythmic.

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

To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural. You know what I'm saying? I feel like people can feel when something is natural.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

I can't dance.