Rhythm Quotes

I set my own rhythm, and I do believe it was usually a little faster than most other people's.

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.

There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

When there's music in your soul, there's soul in your music.

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies

My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.

To understand Vers libre, one must abandon all desire to find in it the even rhythm of metrical feet. One must allow the lines to flow as they will when read aloud by an intelligent reader.

The thing about 'Gilmore Girls' is that it's such a specific voice, and I lived with it for so long before it got on the air It's a very specific rhythm and a very specific banter.

Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

I also like to follow nature's rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we're born at this time, we just live it.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.

I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.

Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.

Shooting a movie can be so tedious. You're trying to get 20 different angles on the same swing. You never get into a rhythm. But I took it very seriously.

I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.

Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

I think Aaron Sorkin is like Shakespeare. When you go through it, there is a rhythm and clues all over the place of how it should be played.

You can't really write until the characters kind of show up one day and tell you what they're going to say. You start to hear the rhythm of the way the people talk, and then it becomes easier.

The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Mourning has a pace and rhythm of its own. It cannot be rushed.

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.

I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.

My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own.

I've felt that in the past, where I just felt like I had to keep drawing in the same way to maintain this sameness and rhythm throughout an entire book, and it was not really necessary.

The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm.

I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.

Basketball for me has always been a matter of rhythm - what you do bouncing the ball, how you bounce the ball, how you run, how you receive the ball to be in rhythm.

Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.

It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.

Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.

I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

If one is willing to have children, rhythm is probably the best method of contraception.