I write most of my stuff when I'm on a train or a plane, any mode of transport. I like trains because… — Eliot Sumner Copy Share Image
Words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music. They have rhythm and pitch and timbre and volume. These… — Josiah Bartlett Copy Share Image
“Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues… — Wolfman Jack Copy Share Image
Everyone chases a bit of what they say life is about: money, desire... But when you stop chasing, you realise life is… — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
Number is the Word but is not utterance it is wave and light, though no one sees it it is rhythm and… — Maurice Druon Copy Share Image
I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
What I've always tried to do is to express the highest point of me, and rock 'n' roll is the first and… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving… — Arthur Honegger Copy Share Image
When Dove moves up from a canter to a gallop, sometimes the only way I can tell the difference is because her… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
I'm sure that everything you do contributes to the sort of novel that you write. A lot of actors have an understanding… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves. In such sacred… — Alexandra Katehakis Copy Share Image
Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
I think one of the things you have to be aware of as an actor is that if you come on the… — Dustin Hoffman Copy Share Image
There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
'Modern Love' completes the EP as an intricate musical piece weaving in and out of complex rhythms. There is even a beatless… — Subb-an Copy Share Image
What I desire of a poem is a clear understanding of motive, and a just evaluation of feeling A poem in the… — Yvor Winters Copy Share Image
A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
When one player makes a team tick, makes everything happen, you use a box-and-one to take the team out of rhythm or… — Kevin Huerter Copy Share Image
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has… — Max Roach Copy Share Image
I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a… — Curt Smith Copy Share Image
When you're in nature, when you're going to bed when the sun goes down and getting up when the sun rises, and… — Perrey Reeves Copy Share Image
I grew up listening to AM radio in the '70s and hearing all of that great soul and rhythm and blues music,… — Patty Griffin Copy Share Image
“Although the rhythm of the waves beats a kind of time, it is not clock or calendar time. It has no urgency.… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there.… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the… — Eduard Hanslick Copy Share Image
The rhythm of the water, the sunset over the horizon, and the freedom of the ocean reminds me of how simply beautiful… — Tara Dakides Copy Share Image
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I love form, but I'm not interested in forms. I've never written a sonnet or villanelle or sestina or any of that.… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I think optimism springs from nature. I'm a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so… — Mira Nair Copy Share Image
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes… — Anthony Davis Copy Share Image
I feel like there are a lot of positives in my swing. I'm really going to work around the rhythm of my… — Lydia Ko Copy Share Image
When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's… — Taiye Selasi Copy Share Image
Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it's hard to teach what I do. It's more of state of… — Aljamain Sterling Copy Share Image
The thing that I always notice that dates a record is the rhythm section. With a good arranger the music can be… — Peggy Lee Copy Share Image
Everything... has to be resolved through rhythms. You're constantly massaging each form, trying to get it home, pushing further and further until… — Leland Bell Copy Share Image
I like working in series, so instead of just doing one separate body of work, what if I come up with a… — Paul Madonna Copy Share Image
