I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.
Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.
I conduct faster so you can see my beat.
Rhythm is the pulse of music.
True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.
In music, four is the number that every measure is - four by four, four beats to every measure. The number four is a sense of completion, almost.
I love 2Pac, the cadences of 2Pac.
A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
In order to have that incredible groove that makes you dream you have to think not of the groove, but of the dream.
Finally here, Imma star with the timing. My swagger is chill and my flow is reclining.
The fact that rap has a strict meter and stays to a click means that you have to make your thoughts concise.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.
Music is really, really mathematical.
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
I was always playing with whatever I could get under my hands, making rhythm with it, which was natural for me, because my parents were listening to a lot of African music.
Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.
I don't know one note from another.
I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.
My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.
I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.
My heart beats in three-quarter time.
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
