John Petrucci Quotes

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

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

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 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.

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

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

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

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

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

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.

I consider every drummer that ever played before me an influence, in every way.

I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.

A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there definitely has to be a reference to a common pulse in the band.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.

Comedy and music are so similar because it's all about timing.

I can't hear rhythm.

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

Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.