Rhythmic Quotes

87 quotes by 79 authors

At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that… — Andrew Weil
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
I shall never forget my first encounter with gorillas. Sound preceded sight. Odor preceded sound in the form of an overwhelming, musky-barnyard, humanlike scent. The… — Dian Fossey
It would never occur to most of us that 'plants' say anything at all, except in terms of what we read into them, or try… — John Hay
Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
The single most important key to sex that I've yet discovered is conscious rhythmic breathing; the more you breathe the more you feel and the… — Annie Sprinkle
One of the most powerful aspects of drumming and the reason people have done it since the beginning of being human is that it changes… — Layne Redmond
Rhythm is a means of organizing sound into specific energy formulas to harmonize the mind and body. Chanting, rhythmic breathing and drumming form an ancient… — Layne Redmond
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one… — Gregory Bateson
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and… — Chuck Mangione
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track. — Taylor Dane
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. — Gwendoline Christie
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space,… — Frederick Lenz
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative… — Wendell Phillips
The painting is always conceived as the linear record of a rhythmic gesture: it is a graph of a dance executed by the hand. Not… — Roger Fry
Entranced by the denotative power of words to define, to order, to represent the things around us, weve overlooked the songful dimension of language so… — David Abram
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the… — Dylan Thomas
I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your… — Joe
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic… — John Frusciante
I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way. — Stone Gossard

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