Rhythmic Precision Quotes

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

You can't compete with Sweets' sound and time feel. It's impossible.

When I'm writing the text for a book like 'Little White Rabbit,' I read it aloud, alone, in my studio, again and again and again - because the rhythm has to be exactly right. After I get my manuscript to the point where I think it is perfect, I begin to think about what I want the art to look like.

Joao Gilberto on guitar could read a newspaper and sound good.

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

I play weird. I'm always just behind. We [drummers] only have so much room. We're not guitarists.