Quotes About Rhythm

May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?

Celebrations] are the punctuation marks that make sense of the passage of time; without them, there are no beginnings and endings. Life becomes an endless series of Wednesdays.

Music is the space between the notes as much as the notes themselves; it's defined as much by silence as by sound.

He played with relish, sleeves rolled up, smiling at his work, tinkling from the low ranges to the high with the tricky syncopation of a tap dancer going up a Ziegfeld staircase.

Strophe and counterstrophe reached their epode.

PRACTICE what you play, & in the manner thereof Scales – 2-octave, swinging 4-note, swinging In 3rds, swinging Diatonic in 7ths, descending, swinging Diatonic in 7ths, descending, 3rd inversion

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music... Bodies never lie.

The truest expression of a people is in its dance and in its music. Bodies never lie.

The melody is the soul of all poetry and prose.

Et ce ne sont pas seulement les bouches qui chantent, mais les mains, mais les pieds, mais les fesses, mais les sexes, et la créature tout entière qui se liquéfie en sons, voix et rythme.

Boom. Boom. You might think of a heartbeat—your own. A child's. Someone else's. Or something's heart. And in that slowdown, you might think it's a kind of love. And you'd be right.

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well.

I personally like melodies. And Mani Sharma garu is the Melody Brahma.

I like Peter Tosh, Bob Marley of course. All of Capleton, Sizzla, Frisco Kid, Buju Banton.

Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

I listen to a lot of Phil Collins.

I respond to mood. I hear some phrase, or pick up a rhythm.

Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.

Music and physical activity goes hand in hand. Music and basketball, man.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

I know melody. I know rhythm; I know bass guitar; I know the piano. I know everything about music that helps build the music that go along with creating the whole art form, you know what I'm saying?

The thing with the piano is, the piano is like percussion almost - well, it is. You have to... not beat on it, but there is more work involved than a Hammond. With a Hammond, you just lay your hands on the keys, man, and you're gone.