Quotes About Rhythm

Song and dance are explosion and interruption, and sometimes the only way to keep up with what's happening.

Silence is the fabric upon which the notes are woven.

We vibrate to the rhythms of our mother's blood before she herself is born...

One must work with time and not against it.

It always seemed to me they're sort of alike ... magic and music. Spells and tunes. For one thing, you have to get them just exactly right.

Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?Good mornin', blues, blues how do you do?I'm doin' all right, good mornin', how are you?

Grow within the flow.

I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!

Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.

Uncertainty is a good thing at the end of a narrative. A simultaneous gain and loss captures the complexity of human existence. The way one sentence follows another, if we pay attention to syntax and rhythm, should express the final effect we want the narrative to have on a reader.

Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting.

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

It is never seven that you count to, before you do something. It is never at the count of two. It is always three, and it is strange.

If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it Chuck Berry.

for tunes had

ta-pocketa, ta-pocketa

ta-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa-pocketa.

Hush, said a wave. Rush, said its fellow

This sort of rhythm schools us to "live from the heart" more minutes of the day. To talk to others is to also pray for them.

Every savage can dance.

There is a sort of spasmodic movement, as if the figures were electrified into action, but no real, organic life or motion. This comes from a lack of what Greek critics call rhythm , that is, consistent flow, the action of one part of the body permeating the rest of the body even when inert.

counting how many times their hearts beat in a minute. This was called taking your pulse.

You don't make 'em trot for one thing and run for the other.