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Quotes About Cadence

There's a rhythm and a cadence in a scene, and when an actor understands without any real direction from you, then that's a very valuable gift. And some people get it, and some people don't.
~ Jeff Nichols
Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.
~ John Edgar Wideman
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportion kept!
~ Dava Sobel
The counter woman seemed unaware that Toni Ware was affecting the exact accent and cadence of her own speech. The assumption that everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.
~ David Foster Wallace
Daniels began filming elite athletes, and he noticed something fascinating: they all tended to run at about 180 steps per minute—ninety per leg—whether going fast or slow. To accelerate, they just lengthened their stride without changing that 180-beat rhythm. Daniels then turned his attention toward new runners, and found they typically had a much slower cadence, more like 160. The mistake these beginners were making, Daniels realized, was confusing quick with hard.
~ Christopher McDougall
A música é o silêncio entre as notas. — CLAUDE DEBUSSY
~ Liane Moriarty
The basic line in any good verse is cadenced... building it around the natural breath structures of speech.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to rhythm and cadence and voice.
~ Sarah Weinman
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Timing. It's about timing.
~ David Gerrold
cadence , n . I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Suthern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you penetrate my very language.
~ David Levithan
I have never lived anywhere but New York or New England, but there are times when I'm talking to you and I hit a Southern vowel, or a word gets caught in a Southern truncation, and I know it's because I'm swimming in your cadences, that you permeate my very language.
~ David Levithan
making as cadence, pace, variety of tone, and especially gestures of the arms, hands, shoulders, and head. Young Frederick was enthralled, and though he could not yet know it, his life's vocation, his true
~ David W. Blight
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
~ F. Sionil Jose
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
~ W. H. Auden
I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long.
~ Karin Slaughter
Left! Right! Left! Right!
~ Dan Gutman
If a song is a living, breathing entity, you might think of the tempo as its gait—the rate at which it walks by—or its pulse—the rate at which the heart of the song is beating.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Cadence is the use of a regular, predictable rhythm within a process. This rhythm transforms unpredictable events into predictable events. It plays an important role in preventing variability from accumulating in a sequential process.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
Cadence causes events to happen at regular time intervals. Synchronization causes multiple events to happen at the same time.
~ Donald G. Reinertsen
Timing Is Everything
~ Donald Miller
If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses
~ John Ruskin
With the evening the air was so full of their song that it was a kind of roaring silence. It was a veil, a background, and its sudden disappearance, as after a clap of thunder, was a shocking thing…In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.
~ John Steinbeck