Rhythm Quotes

In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain.

I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. I have enough rhythm to blend one song into another. But man, I have such respect for the art of deejaying. I hesitate to even call myself a deejay.

People have to find their rhythm. Some people have need for more contact and time together and some people need more space.

It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Life has its rhythm and we have ours. They're designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity.

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.

I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

Acting is constricted because you have the lines. But I improvise with it and what I learn on the set. I improvise rhythms and just changes.

We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.

You know Chuck, Buddy, and Elvis paved the road The roots are deep inside us It's the rhythm in our soul.

Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.

My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

Unless you can feel when the song is done No other is sweet in its rhythm; Unless you can feel when left by one That all men else go with him.

If the rhythm section is really swinging it's such a great feeling - you just want to laugh!

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing.

In the beginning there was rhythm.

Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.

For me, rhythm is a type of divine mathematics in a way. No matter where you're from, we can all understand the mathematics of rhythm. I try to apply this mathematical thinking to my playing.

My kids will find me walking around the house talking to myself and think I'm going crazy. I like to read the scripts out loud and really get the rhythm for the dialogue.

I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.

I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

I did ask Larry David, "How did I get so lucky? How am I here Seinfeld?" He just said, 'Well, when you say your name over and over it just has a really strong rhythm: "Marisa Tomei. Marisa Tomei."

As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm.

Hold the thought of all elements of the body working together in perfect rhythm.

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

If you allow your rhythm to be interrupted, you'll create a void. Then to replace what you give up, you'll start to expect and need more from your partner.

The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work.

When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.

I'm too big a fan of rhythm and editing. I'd much rather my editing be brave than my shooting.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.

I have a long history of being told I have no rhythm, and of people saying 'I've heard chickens sing better than that'.

Often I have to move my body in a certain way, like exercising, to begin to get into the right rhythm for writing a song.

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.