Quotes About Rhythm

I grew up listening to loads of afrobeats; my grandad's Sierra Leonean, so that was always around. My mum loves those kind of beats, too.

I remember one of my favorite all-time records was by Edwin Starr: 'Stop Her on Sight.'

One of the signature things about Heart was the acoustic guitar in a rock format, which you didn't hear that often.

We always try to make up a new signature dance for our songs.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence.

movements must be like a long, flowing river, continuous without jerks or stopping.

could hear creaking sounds as the boats shifted in the harbor waters, bobbing and swaying with an occasional tinkling of metal on metal. Our footsteps formed an irregular rhythm as we clunked along the walkway.

The words slid fluidly off my tongue, with only an occasional stammer. I could only attribute it to the sweep and flow of water around us.

Un viento diurno cesará al anochecer, un viento nocturno cesará al amanecer.

Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you thereupon have present in you the image, so to speak, of the divine knowledge of the temporal order.

La buena prosa debe ser tan precisa como el verso, e igual de sonora" escribe Flaubert.

Escucha, es un latido, solamente un latido, o qué? de la ranita, no? En el pulso de las hierbezuelas o de la lunilla, él?...

If you look at a dancer in silence, his or her body will be the music. If you turn the music on, that body will become an extension of what you're hearing.

Do not all attempts, in our own cultural sphere at least, at escaping from the Judeo-Christian compound by means of a unilateral call to return to what it has repressed (rhythm, drive, the feminine, etc.), converge on the same Celinian anti-Semitic fantasy? And this is so because, as I have tried to explain earlier the writings of the chosen people have selected a place, in the most determined manner, on that untenable crest of manness seen as symbolic fact—which constitutes abjection.

Music, rhythm, rigadoon, without end, for no reason.

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I feel Indian music is very layered and emotional.

I actually have been really influenced by dance music.

My best writing is not outside of the beat. I'm 99 percent influenced by the beat first, and then the words just flow.

I was a big Pretty Purdie fan. I have heavy rhythm and blues influences, and that is what I bring to the table with Aerosmith.

If you do live shows long enough as a comedian, you can still hear that rhythm of laughing. It's ingrained in you, and it's not something you can really teach somebody. It comes from doing hours and hours and hours and years and decades on stage, performing in front of live crowds.