Kiesza Quotes

I just love a slow groove. I feel so comfortable in it. But I listen to a lot of fast music, a lot of techno and house.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.

His whole body shakes with the strain as he tries to lift something he knows he can't lift, something everybody knows he can't lift. But, for just a second, when we hear the cement grind at our feet, we think, by golly, he might do it.

I danced so intensely, I learned the hard way that sometimes you can push your body too far.

My body had given up on me at one point. And as many injuries as I've had over the years, I truly believed that my body needed to rest and not be on the grind like it's been for the last 15 years.

'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.

I can dance to just about anything.

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.

Even in high school, when I had injuries, I tried to play with them. When I shouldn't have worked out, I worked out.

I think Slayer is a funky band.

I kind of really study different angles of the film. You see how people's bodies are, how they react to certain kind of moves - what foot they step with, what hand they jab with, and all that. Just little things like that, that you pick up when you watch film. Studying is big for me.

It would be nice to wake up and be able to walk to the bathroom. But even when I was 20 and at the Paris Opera, I had to crawl down the stairs; it is only when I start to work and stretch that my body begins to recover again.

I'm an ardent tennis player. I'm like an overenthusiastic child out there and I've damaged my back. It's not that it's crippling pain, more mental anguish.

I'm not the tallest or biggest player, so I have to move my body more.

I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt.

Music always has to do with vibrations for me. I love to record everyone's heartbeats, in way. None of us beats at the same pace and a song is a magical moment where different entities, for a split second, meet up.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

Dance music makes us dance. Let us get off our couch and spin around!

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

The endless bonking was exhausting me.

The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.

After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?’