Luka Sulic Quotes

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.

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.

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

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.

Drumming is so hard.

I can't hear rhythm.

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.

The musical training taught me to focus my mind, before playing in an orchestra taught me how to truly concentrate. If you miss your moment in an orchestra, there is no forgiving.

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

Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

If you want me to play only the notes without any specific dynamics, I will never make one mistake.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

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

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

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.

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

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

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.

When I first saw tap dancing, I immediately got it: the righteousness of being able to make so much noise with your feet!

I love the rhythm of tap dancing. It's sharp and quick. Plus, the sound is very appealing.

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.