The Rhythm Section Quotes

#1. 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

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

Alan Price

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

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

Bill Bruford

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

Emily Remler

#8. 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

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

Brittany Howard

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

Horace Silver

#11. 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

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

Wynton Marsalis

#13. 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

#14. Women and rhythm-section first!?

Jaco Pastorius

#15. 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

#16. 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

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

Jo Jones

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

Levon Helm

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

Jim Dickinson

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

Kanye West

#22. 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

#23. My ego only needs a good rhythm section

Miles Davis