Rhythms Quotes
187 quotes by 172 authors
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I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over…
— Scott Adams
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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and…
— Johannes Brahms
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When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece…
— Dave Brubeck
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I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English…
— Nicolas Cage
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Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms -…
— Hillary Clinton
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A garden is the mirror of a mind. It is a place of life, a mystery of green moving to the pulse of the year,…
— Henry Beston
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For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks backcloths, inn-signs, cheap…
— Arthur Rimbaud
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in…
— Plutarch
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I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to…
— Howard Evans
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A writer's voice is not character alone, it is not style alone; it is far more. A writer's voice line the stroke of an artist's…
— Patricia Lee Gauch
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The creative force in man recognizes and records these rhythms with the medium most suitable to him, the object, or the moment, feeling the cause,…
— Edward Weston
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On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural…
— Mark Udall
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This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all.... On…
— Aldo Leopold
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Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the…
— Deepak Chopra
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Holidays and vacations can help to balance activity with contemplation, haste with more natural rhythms, noise with the heralding silence of peace.
— Pope John Paul II
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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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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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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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