Rhythm Quotes

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

In particular what is most important to me is the transformation of a sound by slowing it down, sometimes extremely, so that the inner of sound becomes a conceivable rhythm.

I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival.

I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

Of what is the body made? It is made of emptiness and rhythm. At the ultimate heart of the body, at the heart of the world, there is no solidity. Once again, there is only the dance.

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.

What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.

When children listen to music, they don't just listen. They melt into the melody and flow with the rhythm. Something inside starts to unfold its wings - soon the child and the music are one.

Cooking and shopping for food brings rhythm and meaning to our lives.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.

I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.

The dance of battle is always played to the same impatient rhythm. What begins in a surge of violent motion is always reduced to the perfectly still.

That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm.

People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

Souls have different journeys. The best thing to know is, not what everybody else does, but what you do. Self-discovery essentially is finding your own dharma, your own rhythm.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.

From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen - The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

Certain rhythms just have certain moods.

It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.

Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic.

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

Once we become interested in the progress of the plants in our care, their development becomes a part of the rhythm of our own lives and we are refreshed by it.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

I guess I like to find the rhythm in things.

Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a... You know.

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

Jazz is rhythm and meaning.

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct

The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.

At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm.

In the beginning was rhythm.

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.