Taylor Hawkins Quotes

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Music is something no one can control.

Music is everything.

We're fans of stuff like Maiden, but I think we generally get it from weirder places. For me, the Eagles' 'Hotel California' represents one of the most brilliant harmony approaches to music. Boston did it very well, too.

Music is so unpredictable, but it's universal.

All that really moves me is music.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

I was brought up on Black Sabbath, David Bowie, 50 Cent, and Guru. And it all comes out in my own music somewhere.

Music is an important thing of energy. And there are a lot of wonderful aspects that come with it and vibrations, the physical vibrations, the movement of notes through an instrument and creating a wave that resonates into our spirit.

When we learned to play in bands, what we were covering was equal part the Velvet Underground and the Grateful Dead. That would defy the logic that somehow these things don't fit in the same musical well.

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

'Gunga Gin' is a true Libertines amalgamation, in the proper, old-fashioned sense of the word.

What I learned about music is that it can have nothing to do with words, instrumentation, image, message, or meaning. The meaning is the melody, the notes, the rhythm - music for the sake of its own beauty, with nothing more required to express itself.

It varies from song to song, but melody was always easy for me.

I'm attached to the beat. The beat speaks words. I love music.

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.

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

I have experimented with various genres of music, whether its rock, pop, slow songs, etc.

It's really important to me that my sound is a combination of beats and melody. I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

Songs are easy to remember because they have rhythm and music.

I love melody more than any other part of music.

You know, as kids were weren't jazz musicians or anything. But, the circle of friends and the neighborhood I lived in, we were really big Rush freaks and Yes fans. We would listen to 'Close to the Edge' and 'Hemispheres' and '2112' - the more artsy, progressive stuff. Some of the guys were into King Crimson and Genesis and all that.