Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

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.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

People like to hear songs that they can dance to. Even if they're sitting, they like being made to want to dance and move. By me being a dancer, I know how I'd dance at certain tempos. I was always good at it.

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

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.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

I learned to play drums to the 'Blue Album.'

Most drummers are covered with a million drums, and everyone is like, 'What are you doing back there?'

I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.

I like music and dancing.

The more rocking, the better.

We were built to be rhythmic.

I left my rhythm back in Denver.

A dance to the music of time.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

Making people dance has another function that has nothing to do with art, and I mean that in the most positive way possible. It's like food - if you're not eating it, you're doing something wrong. If they're not dancing, something is wrong.

The only time I am not talking is when I am dancing. I look like an electrocuted octopus.

When you can touch the spirit, whatever that is, and when you can feel the love, and you can feel the song is cooking and it's in the pocket, you know, everybody knows that's the one that's grooving.

I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'

Music always has to do with vibrations for me. I love to record everyone's heartbeats, in way. None of us beats at the same pace and a song is a magical moment where different entities, for a split second, meet up.

Everything move...you wonder how it all knows where to go. Einstein wondered how birds knew where to migrate to. He thought they might follow lines of light in the sky. He saw everything as lines of light. That's how he was built. So we don't know how he moved, either. Any more than the birds.