I always look for a "rhythm" in my writing. A cadence to the sentences. Sometimes I think of pieces I write in… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Throughout the ordeal, I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Anger was something I could control. I could settle… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing… — Herbert Copy Share Image
I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the… — Nas Copy Share Image
I like working with sound; sound and rhythm. I like the abstract more than "What does that mean?" Nobody ever says to… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless… — Claude Brown Copy Share Image
To translate, one must have a style of his own, for the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you are rowing well and hard, the rhythm of the stroke takes over. It drives your days and restores your nights.… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
She was getting used to his rhythms and his moods, recognizing the quiet signals that telegraphed who he was. Good and bad,… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much… — Brady Corbet Copy Share Image
I think I became a better writer after I started writing for the New Yorker. Well, I know I did. And part… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually… — Butterfly Boucher Copy Share Image
Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the… — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
I don't shoot shots just to shoot shots. I'm always working in a rhythm, working on mechanics. I've got a checklist of… — Kyle Korver Copy Share Image
These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless… — Andrew Hill Copy Share Image
The whole art of ecstasy, meditation, samadhi, is: How to become one with the rhythm of the universe. When it exhales, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration.… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
He put his hand on my waist, and my heart began to pound, a rougher rhythm than the music. I held my… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
Stuff like Buena Vista Social Club and Fela Kuti were quite a main thing to my childhood. As soon as I reached… — King Krule Copy Share Image
For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just… — Black Thought Copy Share Image
“Maybe it is because music is about as physical as it gets: your essential rhythm is your heartbeat; your essential sound, the… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If you make films, you're changing rhythm the whole time. You go from a quiet life to an absolutely turbulent life which… — Geraldine Chaplin Copy Share Image
I always want everything read in one sitting. If they can't read it in one sitting, you're going to lose the rhythm… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
Dancehall music is perceived as party music, which it is because of the rhythm, but there are messages that do come through… — Sean Paul Copy Share Image
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term… — Allen Tate Copy Share Image
It's a magical thing, the guitar. It allows you to be the whole band in one, to play rhythm and melody, sing… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image
Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to… — Sue Tompkins Copy Share Image
What I've found in the last few tours is that it takes a week to hit the body. You're still on a… — Sam Bennett Copy Share Image
If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the harmony vocal, and then… — Tom Scholz Copy Share Image
We write to expose the unexposed. If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through,… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
As Jeopardy devotees know, if you're trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all… — Ken Jennings Copy Share Image
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace… — Plato Copy Share Image
Many divorced or widowed people do with their singleness what they should have done before they married for the first time: live… — Harville Hendrix Copy Share Image
