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Quotes About Rhythm

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.
~ Clive James
I've always worked at a steady pace, listening to my heart.
~ Kovai Sarala
Frankly, I'm a drummer; and when I wanted to let off steam, I would just go and beat the hell out of my drums.
~ Bob Crane
I'm a huge Bob Marley fan; I remember going to Jamaica for the first time when I was a kid and I got so obsessed with the steel drums.
~ Matthew Morrison
Music is the always first step and key for a vibey start to the day.
~ Jonathan Bailey
With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera.
~ Channing Tatum
You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.
~ Rosie Perez
Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do.
~ Ninette de Valois
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps.
~ Mia Kirshner
I wanted to play drums, and I got a set when I was 14 and just started to play in the house, to the stereo. I liked Ringo Starr, of course. And Sandy Nelson. I had his record, 'Let There Be Drums,' and I'd play along with it.
~ Tipper Gore
And meadow rivulets overflow,And drops on gate bars hang in a row,And rooks in families homeward go,And so do I.
~ Thomas Hardy
The right pace, neither slow nor fast, cannot get into the hand unless it comes from the heart.
~ Thomas Hoover
We cannot be happy if we expect to live all the time at the highest peak of intensity. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance and order and rhythm and harmony.
~ Thomas Merton
It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.
~ Thomas Moore
Every dance you know is an anti-grammar of another dance you do not know.
~ Thomas Sayers Ellis
The motion of our praise must be like the motion of our pulse, which beats as long as life lasts.
~ Thomas Watson
1. The Principle of Mentalism. 2. The Principle of Correspondence. 3. The Principle of Vibration. 4. The Principle of Polarity. 5. The Principle of Rhythm. 6. The Principle of Cause and Effect. 7. The Principle of Gender.
~ Three Initiates
Everything flows out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right, is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates
~ Three Initiates
Four A.M. "I love driving in the middle of the night! No traffic, the rhythm of the dotted fluorescent centerline, occasional diner with a guy alone in a corner booth, all the traffic lights set to flashing yellow, my heart charged with spiritual ecstasy from the approaching dawn! But the best part is the silence
~ Tim Dorsey
He is by nature a musician who composes the harmony of the Cosmos and transmits to each individual the rhythm of their own music. If the music becomes discordant, don't blame the musician, but the lyre-string he plays, that has become loose and sounds flat, marring the perfect beauty of the melody.
~ Tim Freke
It's no secret that I love dancing and music.
~ Alex Scott
My music would make no sense without flamenco.
~ Rosalia
Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.
~ Quavo
In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
~ Mickey Hart