Quotes About Rhythm

I have a strong dance background. I danced from age five until 18, and that helps a lot. Doing a fight routine is like doing a dance routine.

That's the amazing thing about music: there's a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.

All sounds have been as music to my listening

The small pulse of the life within me, and the great heart of the city around me, seemed to be sinking in unison.

the most heroic symphony is a judicious combination of puffing, plucking, scraping, and beating.

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

The clock tick-tocked, solemn and profound. It might have been the dry pulse of the decaying house itself, after a while it whirred and cleared its throat and struck six times.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Lists make magic, the rhythm of itemised words: you do not list ten techniques, numbered and chantable, in austere prose appropriate for some early-millennium rebooted Book of Thoth, and not know that you have written an incantation.

As a man danced so the drums were beaten for him.

Whatever music you beat on your drum there is somebody who can dance to it.

The reason why students do not progress even after receiving priceless teachings and spiritual techniques from the teacher is because they do not have a schedule; the sattvic energy is missing. Sattvic people establish the rhythm, they preserve the movement, and they preserve the organization.

Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just delivered her back to herself, over and over and over.

London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other.

It hits him again with the strength of a revelation. Rhythm rather than harmony is the organizing principle. Rhythm is what connects everything together. We all walk to a melody we hear inside our heads, he thinks. But that rhythm beats differently for each of us. Perhaps love, then, he considers, is where an absolute synchrony establishes itself between two people.

My beats travel like a vortex, Through your spine, to the top of your cerebrum cortex

Le duo Debbie-Simon marchait déjà très fort, mais alors complété par la rythmique Scott-Paul, j'imagine ce que ça a pu donner. Quelque chose comme une saturation de plaisir, qui vous coupe le souffle, vous fait pleurer de rire.

Dusk softens the sharp points of trees outside my window; the sky slowly darkens, then blackens around an orb of moon. Hours later, a faint blue tinge yields to the soft pastels of dawn, and soon enough sun is streaming in, the stop-start rhythm of the train making it all feel like still photography, thousands of images that taken together create a scene in motion.

Mountains are alive; they have their rhythm and need rest … Mountains give us strength and provide a refuge. They are the realms of freedom.

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.

Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their voices." [ Ten rules for writing fiction ( The Guardian , 20 February 2010)]

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

All the pieces have been arranged with a view to the best possible funk