Thelonious Monk Quotes

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

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

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.

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.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

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

Timing has a lot to with art.

Then certainly for a musician timing becomes something that is immediately accessible as a concept, because it's a necessity in ones everyday performance.

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.

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.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

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

In hindsight, if I could go back in time and relay a message to my younger self, I would tell him to work on his time keeping, and that the job of a drummer is not to be the one that gets noticed the most on stage, or to be the fastest, or the loudest. Above all, it is to be the timekeeper.

I am just a guy who plays drums.

Drumming is so hard.

In our business, everything is timing.

While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.

I can't hear rhythm.

I ain't got no rhythm.

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

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.

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

Definitely an important aspect of my playing is keeping my hands in sync.