Rhythm Quotes · Page 17

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down…

— Fats Domino

I don't want to be a lead player. I don't want to shred and play fast licks. I just want to be…

— Brian Fallon

I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.

— Matthew McConaughey

The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your…

— Jean-Luc Godard

I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited.

— Kate del Castillo

He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game…

— Kobe Bryant

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

— Andrew Motion

Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head.

— Grantland Rice

Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any…

— Carlo Petrini

At times, in medicine, you feel you are inside a colossal and impossibly complex machine whose gears will turn for you only…

— Atul Gawande

I am so weak over love and heartbreak. My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of…

— Adrian Marcel

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play. But during…

— Kurt Cobain

I'm singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about…

— Sheryl Crow

When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and…

— Jonathan Trigell

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of…

— Siri Hustvedt

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I…

— Elmore Leonard

My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to…

— Larry Carlton

Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on…

— Jacques Ellul

The white music was melodic and pretty, and you had beautiful women's voices like Gogi Grant and even the Andrews Sisters. Then…

— Joan Baez

Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big…

— Norman Maclean

My painting technique has not changed that much over time, although perhaps I am painting tighter and with more detail, in spite…

— Mark Ryden

I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my…

— Johnny Marr

When you see runners in town is easy to distinguish beginners from veterans. The ones panting are beginners; the ones with quiet,…

— Haruki Murakami

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been…

— Justin Broadrick

I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country -…

— Dizzy Gillespie

Essentially I'm a melody person in a rhythm age, and that's what Broadway is really about, the songs.

— Dennis DeYoung

I hate working out, but I love jumping rope. Theres a rhythm. It's like dancing.

— Katy Perry

I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.

— Bill Kreutzmann

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

— Anais Nin

Always on my mind at any place at any time, girl why you so fine, control the rhythm of my heart, and…

— Anonymous

I know a little bit how it is coming back from an injury, trying to find your rhythm.

— Paul George

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

— John Frusciante

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

— Anonymous

The rhythms of nature - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their…

— George Crumb

Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

— Juan Luis Guerra

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

— Frank Lloyd Wright

I put my forehead on his collarbone, place one hand on his chest. Its rhythm reassures me: He is real, and he…

— Lauren Oliver

Offense is about rhythm and timing, and you're not going to always have that every game.

— Booger McFarland

If you're winning games, the confidence flows, and you gain a rhythm, which I've experienced before.

— Jordan Henderson

I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done…

— Susan Rice