I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.
I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.
If we don't put some acting in a dance song, no one would be able to dance on it.
With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
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.
I wrote a song with Kara DioGuardi called 'What If,' and it's a really beautiful song. It's kind of like a rock ballad. There's a lot of guitars and drums in it.
Our songs all carry the same way.
I have a visual sense for the music. It has to stay true to a certain sense of period. I rely on a sense of colors and mood in my approach to the arrangement.
Lyrics can be important, but ultimately, what pulls people in on a song is melody and the tracks and the way music feels.
Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
Music is beautiful. Yes, music is great. My music's great.
Playing drums, for me, is like breathing. It's like thinking. It's like eating. It's like walking.
Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.
I always want to make people dance so there'll always be an element of dance in my music.
Do not push so fast ahead, do slow down a bit! Otherwise you won't catch up with yourselves.
Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.
Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.
From a musical standpoint, I was inspired by '90s hip hop, with a lot of drums and the tempos. I'm always inspired by David Bowie and Prince.
Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes
Timing has a lot to with art.
'Spellbound' has a lot of guitar playing on it, obviously, but I wanted to keep it with a more straightforward beat. It doesn't have so many stops and things like that. Whereas if you listen to 'Majestic 12,' that's like a little symphony.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
I think that 'Vinyl''s faster-paced. I think 'Boardwalk' was much more luxurious in its storytelling.
