Robert Fripp Quotes

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

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

An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.

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.

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've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.

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

My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

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

When the band plays fast, you play slow; when the band plays slow, you play fast.

Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.

We were built to be rhythmic.

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.

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

Time is the main subject for any musicians, music writers, composers.

I'm definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in a certain way to compliment the music. We have to work hand in hand, the dancer and the music.

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.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.