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

If one thing got off rhythmically, everything would collapse

— Barry Doyle Harris

In some ways Lester Young is the most complex rhythmically of any musician. He does some things which are just phenomenal.

— Lee Konitz

I had great difficulties learning to play initially because I could not think rhythmically properly, although it's an even-paced rhythm, I was not phrasing…

— Richard Meale

I started singing rhythmically, and now I'm learning from Otis Redding to push a song instead of just sliding over it

— Janis Joplin

Between the ages of 10-14, I did ballet, modern and tap. So I may have a few dancing bones in my body, but I'm…

— John Whaite

As a drummer, I'm rhythmically so disabled that it's hilarious.

— Devin Townsend

Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'

— Dimebag Darrell

TV is the place for writers to live. This is where you have creative control and you're constantly writing. 'Twilight' had almost a TV…

— Melissa Rosenberg

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself,…

— Colleen McCullough

Sometimes I am a collector of data, and only a collector, and am likely to be gross and miserly, piling up notes, pleased with…

— Charles Fort

Strange, I feel as if up to now I had written no more than a few notes.

— Ludwig van Beethoven

But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if…

— Dennis Brown

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools…

— William Booth

“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and…

— Neil Gaiman

When you listen to someone improvise, the notes that are played are only half the story.

— Hubert Laws