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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship… — Ann Brashares Copy Share Image
[True Detective] is an intense show, even in terms of the dialogue - there's a little rhythm to it, in particular in… — Michelle Monaghan Copy Share Image
A writer's work has to take account of many rhythms: Vulcan's and Mercury's, a message of urgency obtained by dint of patient… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes… — Squarepusher Copy Share Image
“Maybe sheetrocking wasn't one of Sully's favorite jobs, but like most physical labor, there was a rhythm to it that you could… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a… — Stone Gossard 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
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
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
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 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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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 defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of… — Hedi Slimane Copy Share Image
We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on… — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
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
When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played… — Little Richard Copy Share Image
I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it… — Amy Sherman-Palladino 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
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
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
Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math.… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was… — Plutarch Copy Share Image