Syncopation Quotes

My approach to writing rhymes went hand in hand with the music. I'd try to make different rhythms with my rhymes on the track by tripping up patterns, using multi-syllable words, different syncopations. I'd try to be like a different instrument.

I find early jazz to be the most revolutionary music of its time.

Jazz told people about the special music that came out of America and about America in general and this kind of liberty and freedom that we have.

Jazz should be recognized as music of the people, based in a lot of accents and melodies. What is jazz but music that people danced to? Jazz has the dynamic thing. I don't think you have to be playing only Charlie Parker licks on your horn or whatever the new version of that is.

I tap dance.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

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

Jazz music is the American's music of choice. This is that music that the Negroes invented to satisfy their primitive inclinations, as well as their desire to be noisy.

Jazz music creates so many phenomenal figures.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

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.

Jazz music is the power of now.

There are no wrong notes in jazz: only notes in the wrong places.

Blues is a very physical music.

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

There's a very thin line between rock and funk. Funk is like a dirtier blues, and so is rock. They're close cousins.

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

I mean, in the course of an evening, people will take a solo here and there, but generally it's all about the rhythm of that music. Dealing with the rhythm with everything. That's essentially at least my concept of what that group is.

When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!

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.

'Que Sera Sera' had a very unusual rhythm. It was a challenge for me to pick up Rahman's beats and translate them into dance steps.