Ralph Stanley Quotes

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

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.

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

I'd never been around a capella or really knew much about it. I feel like I know a lot about music, but what I didn't anticipate is that when every actor has to sing a different part and then do all their choreography on the same beat or on the same word, it's really hard.

Singing is and always will be a part of my life.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

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

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

I sing in full voice in the car and have a tendency to harmonize badly.

I do sing a bit, a solo called 'Rubies,' and the female vocals on 'In Paradisum,' 'The Sound of Silence,' and 'Sapphire Clouds'.

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.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

He comes in on the beat and plays on top of the beat. I think when Prince makes love, he hears drums instead of Ravel.

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

The point here is that I enjoyed singing. I enjoyed the rhythm of it. I grew up listening to Louis Prima, who was also rhythmic.

Music is something no one can control.

I love singing, and whenever I can sing some more vocal leads, I always covet the chance.

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

All that really moves me is music.

If there was a wrong note, it didn't matter as long as it was rocking.