Rhythm Quotes
944 Rhythm quotes by 751 unique authors
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Life is a place where it is necessary to move gently. Whether it be in thought, speech, or action, the rhythm must be controlled; the…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do…
— Eldridge Cleaver
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A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is…
— George Eliot
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come…
— Ray Davies
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It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names…
— Robbie Robertson
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I knew I had to have a hit. I would get no more chances. Analyzing what they had in common I discovered they had many…
— Neil Sedaka
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While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which…
— Robbie Robertson
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Every time I write a song, it's different. I'm all about the rhythm of the words and the melody. Musically, you gotta have a throbbing…
— Dan Bern
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Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also delving deeply into…
— Paul Zollo
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The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon,…
— Victor Wooten
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My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to…
— Ani DiFranco
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Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of…
— Walter Russell
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What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time…
— Thom Yorke
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It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine,
— Eddy Curry
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That man was beautiful. Timing, speed, reflexes, rhythm, his body, everything was beautiful. And to me, still, I would say pound for pound...I'd say I'm…
— Muhammad Ali
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When she would walk, it was like rhythm. The guys' heads would bounce, but I wouldn't look because I was married.
— Angelo Dundee
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CSPS is a breath of musical fresh air. With a whale sized hooks and neck wrenching riffs you’ll have more than you need to fall…
— Unknown Author
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It's like a puzzle or a painting or music. When I ski, it's like a song. I can hear the rhythm in my head, and…
— Mikaela Shiffrin
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Reading, because we control it, is adaptable to our needs and rhythms. We are free to indulge our subjective associative impulse; the term I coin…
— Sven Birkerts
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Poetry springs directly from our primal need and capacity for communication[Poetry] mobilizes such a concentration of devices, such an intensification of language via rhythm, syntax,…
— Sven Birkerts
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In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious
— Tina Turner
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For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music
— Isabelle Huppert
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Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
— Julianne Moore
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The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none
— Holly Hunter
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Baseball is a habit. The slowly rising crescendo of each game, the rhythm of the long season--these are the essentials and they are remarkably unchanged…
— George Will
Who Wrote These Rhythm Quotes
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