Miles Davis Quotes

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

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.

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

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 reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

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

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

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.

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

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.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

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.

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

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

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

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

Obviously, I like the drums to be heard. I think they're important.

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.

I left my rhythm back in Denver.

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

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.

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.

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