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An important part of being in a band is the rhythm section. -- Brittany Howard
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. -- Wynton Marsalis
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production. -- Kanye West
I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice. -- Alan Price
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house. -- Levon Helm
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area. -- Bill Bruford
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
I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and played with us. -- Horace Silver
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
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
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
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
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
I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are about change, and a lot of that stuff happens when you're on tour, and you wake up and you're in a different place and you start thinking about where you're going and where you've been. -- Kathleen Edwards
Women and rhythm-section first!? -- Jaco Pastorius
My ego only needs a good rhythm section -- Miles Davis
If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh! -- Emily Remler
What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section. -- Jim Dickinson
The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. -- Jo Jones
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
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
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

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