Quotes About Rhythm Section

#1. When I started out, even though you had your rhythm section, they were big horn sections, strings, live people laying on every part of the floor in the studio waiting for their chance to get on that one little track.

Betty Wright

#2. I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

Johnny Griffin

#3. If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!

Emily Remler

#4. I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us.

Horace Silver

#5. Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

Quincy Jones

#6. And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.

Bill Bruford

#7. New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

Barbara Cook

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

Wynton Marsalis

#9. My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Dolly Parton

#10. I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.

Max Roach

#11. You should be loud enough to be heard, but not overshadow the soloist or the other members of the rhythm section. Finding this volume balance is critical for a good feeling in the band. Creating bass lines

Sher Music

#12. Women and rhythm-section first!?

Jaco Pastorius

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

Alan Price

#14. 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

#15. My ego only needs a good rhythm section

Miles Davis

#16. I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.

Kanye West

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

Jim Dickinson

#18. An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section.

Brittany Howard

#19. Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

Joe Pass

#20. With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

Levon Helm

#21. The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be timeless. But, rhythm can change, because heaven knows, we didn't know rock was going to come in, did we?

Peggy Lee

#22. The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

Jo Jones

#23. 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

#24. In the beginning," Scripture taught, "there was the Word," and Danny would come to believe that the two great gifts his God had given to the species He loved were time, which divides experience, and language, which binds the past to the future.

Mary Doria Russell

#25. People are who they are, because oft the world they are living in.
The world is as it is, because of the people living in it.

Ann Leckie

#26. I love the process of discovering a new world - that's why I'm passionate about acting. It's just discovering life, feelings, ideas and thought.

Alice Braga

#27. Can't they comprehend that not ever'thing's done for a paycheck? That sometimes you just make a thing 'cause you wanna see how it'll turn out, 'cause you have a feeling in your gut that it oughta be made?

Tom Robbins

#28. The atheists I know, virtually all of whom are happy and mentally healthy, might more properly be called anti-nihilists. We are mainly optimists who love our lives and find them to be full of meaning and purpose.

Dan Barker

#29. I merely say that all reading for pleasure is escape, whether it be Greek, mathematics, astronomy, Benedetto Croce, or The Diary of the Forgotten Man. To say otherwise is to be an intellectual snob, and a juvenile at the art of living.

Raymond Chandler

#30. Don't do cocaine. Don't race trains. And avoid AIDS situations.

Charlie Munger

#31. Much of the world is focused on answers. This unfortunate. Situations change, the earth turns, and our needs fluctuate. Focusing on static answers puts one at a disadvantage. Empower yourself by searching for the right question as if it were a buried treasure and treasures will find you.

John Fairclough

#32. If you don't have a sense of humor, you'll hurt yourself arguing with me.

Ted Nugent

#33. The portal structure is simply a technique: it is neither necessary nor unnecessary, except as the writer and the story make it so. In the case of 'The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant,' it was absolutely necessary to my intentions.

Stephen R. Donaldson

#34. No one has any idea what's going to happen. Not even Elon Musk. That's why he's building those rockets. He wants a 'Plan B' on another world.

Stephen Colbert

#35. The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band ... '

Mark Hoppus