What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
I find motion, literally, is where ideas come from. It's almost like a built-in rhythm section. The contents of the songs are… — Kathleen Edwards Copy Share Image
To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops… — Dimebag Darrell Copy Share Image
You start to find a rhythm and usually if it makes me laugh or comment in the editing room then I knew… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
An old man, having retired from active life, regains the gaity and irresponsibility of childhood. He is ready to play, he cannot… — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I mean, yeah, Anne Fletcher was a choreographer, but she was born to be a director. You need to have the ability… — Sandra Bullock Copy Share Image
It seems extraordinary to have waited so long into one's life to have found the part that actually uses your basic rhythm.… — Susan Sullivan Copy Share Image
...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are… — John Cage Copy Share Image
No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it,… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
And there's wordplay and there's rhythms and you have to be able to get the poetry out of it. You have to… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
Modern European composers...have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition… — George Gershwin Copy Share Image
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and… — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing,… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Focus group was helpful in the way it always is when you make movies, especially with anything funny. You can find the… — Tamara Jenkins Copy Share Image
Honestly, what we use a lot is melatonin. So we use lower dosages of melatonin, taking it at different times, depending upon… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
“The rhythm that allows no change, no difference, is one that seeks to stop time, and stopping time means death. The teacher… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
The conversation was mesmerizing, not for its content but for the cadences of the talk, the rhythm we fell into when we… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not.… — Phil Jackson Copy Share Image
Pick a theme for your material, and stick to it for the entirety of the piece. The repetition of certain key phrases,… — Ivo Graham Copy Share Image
Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I was addicted to rhythm 'n' blues pretty much directly into folk music. I had my little 45s of mostly black artists.… — Joan Baez Copy Share Image
I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any… — James Frey Copy Share Image
I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
What's exciting to me is the live show medium itself; it's the last untouchable medium. I don't think it will ever go… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly… — Plato Copy Share Image
To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow… — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So a lot of people who work rotating shifts and they work at night, their bodies are set to want to be… — Shelby Harris Copy Share Image
I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just… — Patrick Marber Copy Share Image
The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room.… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself,… — Karlheinz Stockhausen Copy Share Image
We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
![“I don't speak with proper grammar. I don't speak with dialogue attribution. I don't speak with quotation. I don't care about any of that stuff. It's about rhythm, and it's about what's in their [the character's] head, and what feels more natural. And it's about speed. I want things to move.” quote by James Frey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d13/james-frey-1108_attribution_i-don-t-speak-with-proper-grammar-i-don_1674684.jpg)
