Rhythms Quotes

187 quotes by 172 authors

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate… — Charles Kuralt
If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz. — Ray Manzarek
Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of… — Wynton Marsalis
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort… — Francoise Sagan
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. — Francoise Sagan
When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy… — Jerry Saltz
A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of… — Jerry Saltz
The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to… — Jerry Saltz
Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound.… — Cat Stevens
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. — Wallace Stevens
The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes. — Zhang Yimou
Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent… — Michael Eric Dyson
What we need to question is bricks, concrete, glass, our table manners, our utensils, our tools, the way we spend our time, our rhythms. To… — Georges Perec
It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear. — Hunter S. Thompson
...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --… — Diane Ackerman
Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such… — Joseph Campbell
Darwin speculated that â€œmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited… — Oliver Sacks
The moon is whole all the time, but we canâ€™t always see it. What we see is an almost moon or not-quite moon. The rest… — Alice Sebold
I have written it before and am not ashamed to write it again. Without Wodehouse I am not sure that I would be a tenth… — Stephen Fry
in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. — Nick Bantock

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