Rhythm famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.
-- Alex Lifeson -
For me, it's painful to make a movie. It's not my normal rhythm.
-- Alexander Siddig -
Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that’s when we get into trouble.
-- Babatunde Olatunji -
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.
-- Ben Kingsley -
We are adjusters. We empathize, we change rhythm and above all we listen to our fellow actors-if they're good actors.
-- Ben Kingsley -
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
-- Bill Bruford -
The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.
-- Brian Setzer -
I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
-- Bruce Forsyth -
If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.
-- Bruce Lee -
The domain of rhythm extends from the spiritual to the carnal.
-- Bruno Walter -
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience.
-- C. S. Lewis -
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
-- Cecil Taylor -
of rhythm is image / of image is knowing / of knowing there is / a construct
-- Charles Olson -
Text first, rhythm second, melody third.
-- Claudio Monteverdi -
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
-- Cyndi Lauper -
Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.
-- David Anthony Durham -
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.
-- Diana Athill -
For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.
-- Donnie Yen -
Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm
-- Duncan Jones -
It is hard to try and find a rhythm when you're only out there for short spurts, but it's fine,
-- Eddy Curry -
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
-- Edith Sitwell -
Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.
-- Edward Burns -
I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm.
-- Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
-- Elvis Presley -
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.
-- Erica Jong -
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.
-- Eugene H. Peterson -
The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
-- Federica Montseny -
Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.
-- Frederic G. Kenyon -
To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
-- Gary Lucas -
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
-- George Crumb -
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.
-- Harbhajan Singh -
A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.
-- Helen Vendler -
What reinforces the content of a photograph is the sense of rhythm - the relationship between shapes and values.
-- Henri Cartier-Bresson -
I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty.
-- Hermann Maier -
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 -
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.
-- Igor Stravinsky -
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?
-- Ira Gershwin -
When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music.
-- Isak Dinesen -
My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.
-- Jackson Pollock -
I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.
-- Jamie Lee Curtis -
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre -
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
-- Jean-Philippe Rameau -
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.
-- Joan Didion -
The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.
-- John Hartford -
I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have.
-- John Oliver -
I know that once I get a good rhythm and a good feel, no one can stop me.
-- John Starks -
There are those who dance to the rhythm that is played to them, those who only dance to their own rhythm, and those who don't dance at all.
-- Jose Bergamin -
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.
-- Julianne Moore -
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
-- Kanye West -
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
-- Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.
-- Ken Hensley -
I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.
-- Kim Clijsters -
I got a lot from my uncle who is a really good ska guitarist. Very ragged makeshift rhythms and intricate lines.
-- King Krule -
Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.
-- Kirk Hammett -
One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.
-- Lech Walesa -
I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
-- Leila Josefowicz -
You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
-- Les Paul -
We have to slow the rhythm of rush in our lives so that the best of who are can emerge.
-- Lysa TerKeurst -
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
-- Mahalia Jackson -
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
-- Malin Akerman -
One of us... One of them... One of us... One of them... A rhythm playing like train wheels on a circular track -- never ending but going nowhere.
-- Malorie Blackman -
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
-- Michelangelo Antonioni -
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues
-- Mick Taylor -
In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
-- Mickey Hart -
I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best.
-- Miley Cyrus -
I love road trips. You get into this Zen rhythm; throw sense of time out the window.
-- Miriam Toews -
In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.
-- Mother Meera -
Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.
-- Muriel Barbery -
As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.
-- Nikos Kazantzakis -
There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.
-- Patricia Garfield -
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.
-- Plato -
Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.
-- Ruggiero Ricci -
Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.
-- Seamus Heaney -
Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm.
-- Stanley Kunitz -
There's usually a rhythm and a melody in my head, and that creates an emotional state
-- Stephan Jenkins -
I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.
-- Steven Tyler -
Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan -
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.
-- Susanne Katherina Langer -
Russians understand the rhythm of despair.
-- Suzanne Massie -
She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.
-- Tillie Olsen -
In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious
-- Tina Turner -
I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.
-- Tom Jones -
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right
-- Tom Robbins
