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Quotes About Rhythm

As far as favorite tunes, 'You Know You Know' is one, and why it is important is difficult to say. The rhythmic cycle is very interesting and challenging to play, since it can be considered three bars of 4/4 or four bars of 3/4. 'The Dance of Maya' is another, and I have to mention 'Sanctuary.'
~ John McLaughlin
Chromamatic' is actually about changing the strings on my guitar and tuning my guitar.
~ Wayne Static
A lot of the time I use slide tuning for rhythm parts. I play a lot of slide in regular tuning as well as open tunings. I'm still mad about slide, there are so many ways of progressing on it.
~ Rory Gallagher
I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.
~ Jay McShann
I think often times if a guitar riff is centered around the chorus or if it follows the chorus, then it often times turns into the actual hook.
~ Ryan Tedder
All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.
~ Jermaine Dupri
I try to tweet, but I still haven't gotten into the rhythm as much as some people who have, like, 20,000 tweets. There are some great comedians on there, so you get some pretty funny hot takes and bits.
~ Sam Richardson
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.
~ Paulo Coelho
I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.
~ Susan Rice
Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.
~ Joe Cocker
Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction.
~ Marc Guggenheim
Some of [drummers] drop time because they want to hear what you're doin'.
~ Miles Davis
When you appreciate the power of nature, knowing the rhythm of any situation, you will be able to hit the enemy naturally and strike naturally.
~ Miyamoto Musashi
My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.
~ James Fenton
For the walk, count "one, two, three, four" or you could say, "bread-and-butter, bread-and-butter" along with your pony's steps. For the trot, try humming a song like "Jingle Bells" or counting "one, two, one, two" as you post.
~ Susan E. Harris
He made sure she didn't fall, but he also made sure she had to focus on keeping her balance instead of judging her singing because one of the biggest reasons athletes choked was from overconcentrating in crunch situations. Tension disrupted rhythm. An experienced player going through a bad streak only made it worse by focusing so much on the outcome he lost touch with his natural instincts. it was exactly the kind of mental disconnect he suspected had happened to her.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
No siempre llega antes quien más corre.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
While the rhythm of running emphasizes a downward motion, the upward motion of skipping defies gravity and elevates my mood in the process.
~ Susan Reineck
El patrón respiratorio del modelo efector que obtuvimos para la rabia, se caracteriza por ciclos rítmicos de alta frecuencia y de gran amplitud, predominando la respiración abdominal. Siempre la describo como una respiración en "dientes de sierra". Se inspira y se espira por la nariz, dilatando y contrayendo bruscamente las fosas nasales.
~ Susana Bloch
To trace the development of mind from earliest times...requires...not a categorical concept, but a functional one.... The most promising operational principle for this purpose is the principle of individuation.[p. 310]" "[yet she also says:]...we have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance;...this dialectic of vital continuity...[p. 355]
~ Susanne K. Langer
Hearts been jumping just like a rabbit. Blood keeps pumping but that's just habit.
~ Suzanne Collins
Much like trains in India, grief is a circular, irrational process with no discernible rhythm or timetable. Here it comes, there it goes.
~ Suzanne Finnamore
The bass player's function, along with the drums, is to be the engine that drives the car... everything else is merely colours.
~ Suzi Quatro
In a play, you dictate pace, you dictate rhythm, you dictate when people look at you, when people should be looking at something else. In film, the editor does that.
~ Oscar Isaac