Stone Gossard Quotes

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

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

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.

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

All the time, I play with a rhythm; if I'm too far out of the rhythm, I feel out of place.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

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.

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

Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.

The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

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

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.

We were built to be rhythmic.

I'm a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

I can't dance.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

You get this really cool groove when you're playing just piano, bass, and drums where everyone's sort of feeling each other's space, which is the only way to put it, but it really is true, and everyone's sort of sitting in their own pocket. It's kind of jazz-like.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.