At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life… — Federico Garcia Lorca Copy Share Image
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939… — Quincy Jones Copy Share Image
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living;… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
That's that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street… — Frank O'Hara Copy Share Image
Your voice sounds completely different in different languages. It alters your personality somehow. I don't think people get the same feeling from… — Francois Arnaud Copy Share Image
The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
I saw the Light,saw the myriad spirits flying loose up the Tunnel towards the celestial blaze, the Tunnel perfectly round and widening… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we… — Wayne Muller Copy Share Image
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a… — Chris Thomas King Copy Share Image
When I'm actually writing by hand, I get more of a sense of the rhythm of sentences, of syntax. The switch to… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
Dark the Night, with breath all flowers, And tender broken voice that fills With ravishment the listening hours,-- Whisperings, wooings, Liquid ripples,… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Rhythm is a dancer, I need a companion Girl I guess that must be you Body like the summer, fucking like no… — Jeremiah Copy Share Image
My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Golf's ultimate moral instruction directs us to find within ourselves a pivotal center of enjoyment: relax into a rhythm that fits the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The jazz rhythm won't be understood by the bulk of my audience. That's the problem. We can get away with maybe one… — George Benson Copy Share Image
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms.… — Dave Brubeck Copy Share Image
Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being… — Mick Jagger Copy Share Image
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm,… — Ike Turner Copy Share Image
We grown-up people think that we appreciate music, but if we realized the sense that an infant has brought with it of… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be… — William Christopher Handy Copy Share Image
The ability to start out upon your own impulse is fundamental to the gift of keeping going upon your own terms. .… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence,… — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is… — Michael Cera Copy Share Image
It's funny: I look at songs, and I guess they each tell a story, and the different songs talk about different things.… — Dianne Reeves Copy Share Image
The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have some rhythms on my computers, that are actually called "trance", they go from 1-30 or 40. They're grooves that come… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could… — Cristin Milioti Copy Share Image
I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each… — Sarah Baker Copy Share Image
There's no telling from poem to poem where this brilliant 'conversation' about maleness and gender will lead---there are poems about husbands and… — Nancy Eimers Copy Share Image
I really like to discover a new culture, a new country, a new rhythm of living. I really, really like that. I… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
Prison, with its daily rhythm, with the transfer and the defense, does not leave any time; prison dissolves time: This is the… — Antonio Negri Copy Share Image
Driving to class with him. All I could think about was that it had been three days since I'd touched his face… — Sabrina Ward Harrison Copy Share Image
I think that too many people think too much about my lyrics. I am more a person who works with the sound… — Mike Patton Copy Share Image
Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has… — Andrew S. Gilbert Copy Share Image