Rhythm Quotes

I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

Rhythm is form cut into time.

There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.

Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

The sculptor must search with passionate intensity for the underlying principle of the organisation of mass and tension - the meaning of gesture and the structure of rhythm.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm

Reincarnation is a dance. It is a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. Spirit and matter join together as one dancing partner. They dance and it goes on forever.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

Rhythm must have meaning.

Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

I love to see when ya move with the rhythm; I love to see when you're dancin' from within; It gives great joy to feel such sweet togetherness, everyone doin' and they're doing their best!

Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.

Live, be, move, rejoice -- you are alive! Without the heart's wise rhythm, we could not exist.

I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.

The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.

I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

I usually start with the words. The rhythm of the words gives me the rhythm of the song, and then I look for the musical highlights in it to carry it.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

One world, one mankind cannot exist in the face of six, four or even two scales of values: We shall be torn apart by this disparity of rhythm, this disparity of vibrations.

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.

Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being.

Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time.

An acrobatic dunk will make it onto Sports Center. A simple, unspectacular bounce pass in the rhythm of the offense will not. System basketball has been replaced by players who want to be the system.

The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.

Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.