Quotes About Rhythm

When the Negro musician or dancer swings the blues, he is fulfilling the same fundamental existential requirement that determines the mission of the poet, the priest and the medicine man.

Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.

There was a saying in Umuofia that as a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

When you dance to your own rhythm, Life taps its toes to your beat.

Happiness pulses with every beat of my heart.

From the beginning there were drums, beating out world rhythm—the booming, never-failing tide on the beach; the four seasons, gliding smoothly, one from the other; when the birds come, when they go, the bear hibernating for his winter sleep. Unfathomable the way, yet all in perfect time. Watch the heartbeat in your wrist—a precise pulsing beat of life's Drum—with loss of timing you are ill. —JIMALEE BURTON (HO-CHEE-NEE), CHEROKEE, 1974

Il me semblait entendre ces paroles sur un rythme d'une douceur infinie, car son regard avait presque la sonorité, et les phrases que ses yeux m'envoyaient retentissaient au fond de mon coeur comme si une bouche invisible les eût soufflées dans mon âme.

Demander à la poésie du sentimentalisme ... ce n'est pas ça. Des mots rayonnants, des mots de lumière ... avec un rythme et une musique, voilà ce que c'est, la poésie.

the exuberance of the moment drowning out all other sensations but that of music's delicious momentum.

a "mélomane," the French word for music lover;

Monk's reasons for dancing during a performance: "I get tired sitting down at the piano! That way I can dig the rhythm better.

Even the aesthetic activities of political opposites are one in their enthusiastic obedience to the rhythm of the iron system.

If movement was a language, skipping would be the natural word for "bliss."

Tu as compté les heures, observant avec ravissement la course des aiguilles. Le temps était fictif : était-il dix heures ou vingt-deux heures, mardi ou dimanche ? Cela n'avait pas d'importance ; de nouveau tu pouvais régulariser ta vie, à midi j'ai faim, à minuit sommeil. Un rythme, quelque chose à quoi se raccrocher.

Most companies have a yearly rhythm. For example, retail often has a busy time around December. If you identify the rhythm, you can plan your projects around it. If you don't, you will find yourself swimming upstream. If your company doesn't have a defined rhythm, define one for yourself.

What are you then? You are a pattern of energy flowing in the stream of time.

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Drake is damn near the best with melodies.

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

I'm basically a music nerd, especially when it comes to electronic music.

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.