Beats Quote by Miles Davis

I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric…

— Erin McKeown

When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.

— Phil Rudd

If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.

— Viv Albertine

Catch Harry Belafonte. He's got a helluva rhythm section.And so have the Pointer Sisters. And that little guy with Sammy Clayton. He plays the…

— Miles Davis

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

— Miles Davis

The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But,…

— Peggy Lee

Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.

— Frank Sinatra Jr

What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.

— Jim Dickinson

Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So…

— Mark Ronson

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

— Wynton Marsalis

If you don't have a good rhythm section, your band is toast; you're a bar band. Good rhythm section, you've got a chance to…

— Duff McKagan

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

— Alan Price

It was a matter of not seeing the woods for the trees. Glorious songs have been in Ireland forever, but a lot of these…

— Phil Coulter

I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

— Lee Konitz

I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

— Marian McPartland