Quotes About Rhythm

I do after-school ballet and also hip-hop and jazz.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

I guess certain kinds of jazz music could be Crunk. But the average jazz song, no, it's not Crunk.

I learned how to dance every move of 'Billie Jean.'

The main rhythmic loop in 'Alaska' is me just patting on my jeans.

We used to play Jet before we go on stage.

In the Foo Fighters, my main job is to be the drummer, and that's enough.

Joe Morello, my dad was really into him and Little Richard's drummer.

I joined a band to hit things.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

Life is like a pendulum. It swings back and forth between pain and relief. Without ceasing, endless. She

Por qué tanta prisa por tener éxito, y por qué nos embarcamos en empresas tan desesperadas? Si un hombre no va al ritmo de sus acompañantes, tal vez sea que oye un tambor diferente. Dejad que baile al ritmo de la música que escucha, sin importar su compás ni la distancia desde donde llegue ese sonido» 2.

Keep pace with the drummer you hear, however measured or far away.

The frantic desire to live, to live at any cost, is not a result of the life rhythm in us, but of the death rhythm.

The man who was talking had ceased to be of human size or proportions but had become a Colossus whose silhouette swooned backwards and forwards with the deep droning rhythm of his drug-laden phrases. He went on and on and on, unhurried, unruffled, inexhaustible, inextinguishable, a voice that had taken form and shape and substance, a figure that had outgrown its human frame, a silhouette whose reverberations rumbled in the depths of the distant mountain sides.

The art of living is based on rhythm - on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life,' metamorphosis.

The art of living is based on rhythm — on give and take, ebb and flow, light and dark, life and death. By acceptance of all aspects of life, good and bad, right and wrong, yours and mine, the static, defensive life, which is what most people are cursed with, is converted into a dance, 'the dance of life'...

En el momento en que nace un niño pasa a formar parte de un mundo en que no hay sólo el ritmo de la vida, sino también el ritmo de la muerte.

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

It's been years and years and years I've been playing the drums, and they're still a challenge. I still enjoy using drumsticks and a snare drum.

The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they'd yell out, 'That's righteous, brother!' and that's how we got our name.

Working in bars back then, in the '50s, to get a job you had to play all kinds of music. There'd be customers come in and yell jazz tunes at you and yell rock 'n' roll tunes at you and polkas and rhythm and blues and country music.

Yes, there's a lot of the blues in my playing.

When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.