Quotes About Rhythm

Music is a language that doesn't speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it's in the bones, it's in the bones.

The rock's easy, but the roll is another thing...

Rock and roll ain't nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat.

Human lives are organic and cyclical. Different capacities express themselves in

You dance as you walk through life. If you don't dance, for heaven's sake, you don't lift up from this Earth.

The Moon's magnetic gravitational power, combined with the movement of the Earth influences the flow of sap in trees and plants and of body fluids, including the rhythm of the blood, the female menstrual cycle and gestation cycles, and the brain itself.

When a man achieves a fair measure of harmony within himself and his family circle, he achieves peace; and a nation made up of such individuals and groups is a happy nation. As the harmony of a star in its course is expressed by rhythm and grace, so the harmony of a man's life-course is expressed by happiness; this, I believe, is the prime desire of mankind.

The day was dying, the night being born-but with great peace. Here were the imponderable processes and forces of the cosmos, harmonious and soundless. Harmony, that was it! That was what came out of the silence -- a gentle rhythm, the strain of a perfect chord, the music of the spheres, perhaps.

Y no es el dragón acaso el emblema permanente de la vida? El dragón es el aire, el espacio brillante y claro gracias al cual los objetos del mundo se disponen con un ritmo estable, del que extraen su arte los pintores. El dragón resuena largamente en la noche, cuando los lugares se opacan y debemos crear una pequeña luz, y dentro de ella una musiquita que nos conserve la vida mientras todo se extravía, quizás irremisiblemente.

the rhythmic philosophy. This philosophy argues that the easiest way to consistently start deep work sessions is to transform them into a simple regular habit. The goal, in other words, is to generate a rhythm for this work that removes the need for you to invest energy in deciding if and when you're going to go deep.

Another common way to implement the rhythmic philosophy is to replace the visual aid of the chain method with a set starting time that you use every day for deep work. In much the same way that maintaining visual indicators of your work progress can reduce the barrier to entry for going deep, eliminating even the simplest scheduling decisions, such as when during the day to do the work, also reduces this barrier.

He would have lived countless times over the life of the individual, of the family, tribe and people, and he would possess the living sense of the rhythm of growth, flowering and decay.

For every in-breath there is an out-breath, and as these two currents meet in the nose, a fine microclimate is set up.

He sort of breathes music.

sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony.

Now up, now doun, as boket in a welle.

Dance has to look like the music. If you see music simply as an accompaniment, then you don't hear it. I occupy myself with how not to interfere with the music.

Dancing is music made visible.

Dancers are instruments, like a piano the choreographer plays.

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

grasses swayed gently, giving

You cannot make your shimmy shake on tea

that little bit between each note — silences which give the form

The slave who dances is free ... while he is dancing.