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Quotes About Rhythm

Twelve Dancings are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes.
~ Heinrich Heine
I love pop and rap. Bringing those two worlds together is always fun.
~ Tony Oller
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.
~ Pete Seeger
Every land has its own special rhythm, and unless the traveler takes the time to learn the rhythm, he or she will remain an outsider there always.
~ Juliette de Bairacli Levy
Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through the meadows the horses and cattle
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
~ F. L. Lucas
Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.
~ Michael Jackson
He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.
~ Mark Helprin
Now in the midst of the broken waters of my civilization rhythm begins. Clear above the flood I raise my ringing voice. In the disorder and darkness of the night, in the wind and the washing waves, I shout to my brothers--lost in the flood.
~ Sherwood Anderson
stand bustle or hustle, but she could only operate when things were
~ Shirley Conran
Waves are the practice of the water.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Vision" I love all things that pass: their briefness is Music that fades on transient silences. Winds, birds, and glittering leaves that flare and fall— They fling delight across the world; they call To rhythmic-flashing limbs that rove and race… A moment in the dawn for Youth's lit face; A moment's passion, closing on the cry— 'O Beauty, born of lovely things that die!
~ Siegfried Sassoon
Because it's all about the rhythm, you said. Good sentences start with a beat.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Like an acoustic instrument
~ Simon Cann
Type has rhythm, just like music.
~ Simon Garfield
Magic has a fondness for patterns and repetition.
~ Simon R. Green
music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...
~ Sir Philip Sidney
There is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
The rhythm that allows no change, no difference, is one that seeks to stop time, and stopping time means death. The teacher has lost the possibility of an ongoing story because he is trapped in the trauma of a single moment and is never released.
~ Siri Hustvedt
I think what I listen to now is what I listened to as a kid which is kind of black American soul. I love soul music.
~ Matthew Healy
In respect for drummers, see, I love drummers.
~ Miles Davis
I love more percussions more than anything. I always wanted to be a drummer.
~ Pharoah Sanders
I used to love jungle. I still think it's the ultimate genre, really, because the people making it weren't musicians.
~ Aphex Twin