T. D. Jakes Quotes

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.

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

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.

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

One of my central maxims is how a major part of what a conductor tries to do is get a large group of people to agree on where "now" actually is.

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.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

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.

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

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.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

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

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

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.

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

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.

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

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

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

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.