Quotes About Rhythm

Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.

A lot of rap music can get repetitive.

To me, music's something I can dance to or listen to. To write about it is always more of what the music represents, or what it reflects. Like an ideal song, to me, is a song that you can dance to, that summons up some darker and greater mystery.

As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you're boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they're interested again. You start to get a sense of your story's rhythm and flow.

I just love the hypnosis of a single bass drum.

Finger-picking, in general, is a hypnotic thing. I feel like I'm more A.D.D. all the time, so the music has to be hypnotic.

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.

Music makes illness retreat.

I can't even imagine life without music!

For me, dancing is a real form of mediation. It gives me immense happiness and helps me stay fit.

Music helps immensely with math skills, and math skills help immensely with music skills.

Music in this film is a very important part.

Jingle taps on the majorette boots were an important part of a little girl growing up in the South.

Breathing is crucial in dancing and so it is an important part of my exercises.

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

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.

Walk through life always with a song

The rhythm of sunrise, the rhythm of sunset, filled her life.

I love to sing! I think nearly everyone does....We are rhythmical animals, from our heartbeats to our cycles of eating and sleeping, and when we create rhythms, we're in harmony with our bodies.

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song.

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

Remember, it's the pace that kills, never the distance.