Quotes About Rhythm

Everything has its own time

Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule.

Dancing to the sounds of trees and stones and slow minutes ticking in our hearts and bones.

Nature is the best Time-keeper.

history beats in longer periods than a man's heart

Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

A wonderful stream is the River Time As it runs through the realms of Tears With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme As it blends with the ocean of Years.

The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Music is the only thing keeping the planet together

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.

I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity.

The strange thing about Africa is how past, present and future come together in a kind of rough jazz, if you like.

More or Less Love Poems #11: No babe We'd never Swing together but the syncopation would be something wild

Intimacy requires an ability to both merge and be separate, to come together and be apart, like oscillating on a giant swing from oneness to separateness, creating a constant rhythm.

Language is rich, and malleable. It is a living, vibrant material, and every part of a poem works in conjunction with every other part - the content, the place, the diction, the rhythm, the tone-as well as the very sliding, floating, thumping, rapping sounds of it.

I think there ought to be a little music here: hum, hum.

My heart dresses in black and dances.

The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm.