Rhythm Quotes

944 Rhythm quotes by 751 unique authors

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their… — John Cage
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message… — Charles Kennedy
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including… — Shelby Foote
Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak,… — Josiah Royce
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady -… — Christopher McDougall
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work… — Patricia Briggs
Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch… — Frank Ocean
Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic. — Ian Dury
A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed… — Sir John Woodroffe
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing. — Cat Power
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms. — Gary Lucas
I have actual dreams of Bruce Springsteen calling me up on stage to wear a bandanna and play rhythm guitar next to Little Steven. — Tom Perrotta
The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is… — Charlotte Rampling
I usually do at least a dozen drafts and progressively make more-conscious decisions. Because I've always believed stories are closer to poems than novels, I… — Ron Rash
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 only after -… — Taiye Selasi
For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm. — Alexander Siddig
I like a certain style of show, I like a certain pace, I like a rhythm, I like a lot of comedy in with my… — Amy Sherman-Palladino
The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the… — Amy Sherman-Palladino
There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing… — Chad Smith
I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. — Hal Sparks
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. — Karlheinz Stockhausen
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an… — Karlheinz Stockhausen
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I have discerned in… — D. V. Ager
The rhythm of life is give and take. It is necessary to put things back into the system. To not do that is to foul… — Frederick Lenz
The earth is such a voluminous, sparse, wild place that has its own rhythm that human beings try to control and strategize our way around,… — Rachael Taylor

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