Rhythm Quotes · Page 5

I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

— Miranda July

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have…

— Greg Ginn

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

— Malin Akerman

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes…

— Yehudi Menuhin

Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It's a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It's played in all of America -…

— Juan Campodonico

I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.

— Alan Price

We're not really sure why it [broken circadian rhythm] continues, but when they become adults, we usually have to treat it because…

— Shelby Harris

There's something about rhythm and bass sections generally, how the bass and drums interact, that's basically the soul of any song.

— Shura

I'm so envious of certain actors that have that natural facility to hear a cadence and the rhythm of an accent, that…

— Geoffrey Rush

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

— Bruce Lee

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

— Ben Kingsley

And if I'm ahead, I can sometimes tell. It might mean I'm having a good swim, but pretty much, I'm just focused…

— Katie Ledecky

I have to feel like everything is in a rhythm, everything is in a good sequence, and then go out there and…

— Kevin Huerter

We write to expose the unexposed. Most human beings are dedicated to keeping that one door shut. But the writer's job is…

— Anne Lamott

If you allow yourself to be the person you are then everything will come into rhythm.

— John O'Donohue

I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street…

— Frank O'Hara

One of the biggest advantages that start ups have is execution speed and you have to have this relentless operating rhythm.

— Sam Altman

daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and i told him i’m gonna beat out my own rhythm

— Nikki Giovanni

For some music, lyrically, the best move is to keep it simple in what it is that you are saying, and just…

— Black Thought

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.

— Thomas Merton

Anytime you can just get into a rhythm it feels good... Any player would say that.

— Mark Ingram II

You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all…

— Alison Krauss

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find…

— Edward Burns

Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language…

— Sven Birkerts

But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy,…

— Rob Sheffield