Max Weinberg Quotes

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

I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.

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.

I'm a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.

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

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

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.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

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

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

The people need to feel the music.

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

I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.

I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I don't just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I don't hear it then I can't feed myself.

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not.

Your own music comes out of your head and emotions, but it's not etched in your system.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don't really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.

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.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.