Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quotes

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

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

We were built to be rhythmic.

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.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

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.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

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.

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

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

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

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

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.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.