Quotes About Rhythm

regulating potential of patterned, repetitive activity like dancing or massage.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

In man, breathing is incessantly going on—one breath only serving for two or three pulsations; so that whatever other business he has to attend to, waking or sleeping, breathe he must, or die he will. But the Sperm Whale only breathes about one seventh or Sunday of his time.

Translation is the art of listening. In one ear is the sound of the original text, and in the other is a rhythm, wordless, waiting to find its voice. Somehow, eventually, the right words rise into the rhythm and become it, as if the listening created what one wanted to hear.

The rhythm of the weekend was picking up Ã¢â'¬Â¦ a huge beer delivery, the rending of metal, greedy laughter and a rumble of excitement when Sonny told what had happened at Williams' store.

Clive was losing sensation in his feet, and as he stamped them the rhythm gave him back the ten note falling figure, ritardando, a cor anglais, and rising softly against it, contrapuntally, cellos in mirror image. Her face in it. The end.

The organ played a familiar introduction. Ever since his truculent fourth form at Berners Hall, he could not bring himself to sing a hymn. However sweet the melodies or the rhythm of the lines he could not get past the embarrassment of their blatant or childish untruths. But the point was not to believe but to join in, to be part of the community.

Breathing is like riding a bicycle.

I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.

Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

When you're in nature, when you're going to bed when the sun goes down and getting up when the sun rises, and you get into that rhythm, your body just really responds positively to it.

I grew up doing sitcoms and theater and even playing with the Beach Boys, where you're programmed to perform, your body gets into a rhythm and you know it has to perform.

Dance is a physical and mental workout. Once you get your body moving, you'll see a difference.

Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

A lot of my music that I like puts energy in your body or makes you want to dance or break something or just go mosh or jump around.

I've found that most people who studied when they were little, even if they never took another tap class, it's percussive, so it stays in your body, the muscle memory of it.

The most important thing in any contest is finding your rhythm and making your body work for you.

Ud Jana' is a rock song, so we have used funky beats to give it a youthful appeal.

I searched YouTube for 'deaf music videos' and watched them with the sound muted. I noticed that though you could understand the words being signed, the sense of rhythm was lost. That's when I had the idea to create a video where you could see the sounds you couldn't hear.

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing.

You know what's really hot? Pop-and-locking, ticking. The moonwalk. Tricks like that.

What happens is people go, 'I want to play the guitar,' and the first thing they do is hit Google: 'How can I play this?' and the next thing you know, you've learned all these tricks, but you've never learned how to play rhythm guitar with a groove.

I do find modern jazz quite tricky.