Bass Quote by Stephen Mallinder

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

— Philip Glass

I'm not sure a lot of us in the music business or in rock 'n' roll are given credit for irony or humor.

— Terence Trent D'Arby

I think what we tried to do lyrically, vocally and musically was to capture a sound.

— Stephen Mallinder

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

— Elliott Carter

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance.

— Michael Ondaatje

In the beginning there was rhythm.

— Hans von Bulow

I think what we do is really, at times, a complicated thing. But at the end of the day it's so important that we…

— Bethany Cosentino

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying…

— Steve Lukather

The beat literary movement is strong because of those very challenging and individual relationships and styles and contention and so on. So I just…

— Anne Waldman

It's probably the first type of music we had, rhythm, whether it's poetry or tapping.

— Shura

I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going…

— Andy Gill

Music wasn't made to make us wise, but better natured.

— Josh Billings