Rhythmic Exploration Quotes

Music is my home.

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

Hip-hop is my vehicle for scientific enlightenment. It wasn't until my music career matured where I was exposed to science as an intellectual pursuit.

A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.

Your solos should be as interesting as any other part of the song.

I just would use any instrument known to man in any combination as long as it describes an emotion.

I love exploring the hypnotic elements of music, and because of that there are very long tracks on 'Immunity.'

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

Starting out in Watts, I can say I really had a love for music.

I can produce any instrument, any sound that I can imagine; it may be percussive to the audience, but in my mind it may be a piano, a melody, or a tuba, or a harp, or a harmonica. My mission is to allow people to hear the dance in its purity and up against any other type of sound or music.

Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.

Purple - I mean, the music and the influence and the subliminal touches range from orchestral conversation to jazz to blues and soul and God knows what. It's a vast range of expressions.

As a composer, I know that all sorts of sounds I hear are making their way into my brain and soul and later sneak into my music.

When a theme is beautiful, it's a pleasure to rearrange it or to interweave it with your own music.

With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension.

I guess there are two things that make me like songs generally, of ours, and that is if they groove well, or if they have a jam that can go somewhere.