The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. — Jo Jones Copy Share Image
I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look… — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms. — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
I've got music in my head when I fight. I've got a certain rhythm, a certain way of fighting, a certain relaxation… — Naseem Hamed Copy Share Image
I feel like a lot of runners in the NFL: the more they get the ball, the more they get into a… — Le'Veon Bell Copy Share Image
Closer to a fight, I can really feel my heartbeat in my chest. I can hear it beat through my mouth, this… — Carl Froch 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of… — Gary Cole Copy Share Image
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“The rhythm of editing, the length of a frame- these are not merely dictated by the professional need to establish a link… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as counterpoint and harmony follow their own laws, and differ in rhythm and movement, both formal tensions and color tensions have… — Hans Hofmann Copy Share Image
I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
I did ballet, jazz, and all that, but I think hip-hop is really where I learned rhythm and groove, which has helped… — Kelsea Ballerini Copy Share Image
Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood. — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I've always… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world. — Sulak Sivaraksa Copy Share Image
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth. — Kate Smith Copy Share Image
If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception. — Elizabeth Hawes Copy Share Image
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. — Isadora Duncan Copy Share Image
Running hills breaks up your rhythm and forces your muscles to adapt to new stresses. The result? You become stronger. — Eamonn Coghlan Copy Share Image
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception. — Knute Rockne Copy Share Image
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. — Philip Glass Copy Share Image
The direction and rhythm of human progress do not depend on the masses, even when they add up to hundreds of millions;… — Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
