Quotes About Rhythm

Dance is not an exercise. Dance is an art.

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

The centipede has rhythm and flow in its hundred legs precisely because it does not have to think about it. Consider this the next time you move the instruments of your art.

In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.

I've always believed film is most close to music of all the other arts.

The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.

We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion.

Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

When comedy is good, it's jazz. The beats of it, the looseness, the improvisational part, the music-the way you hit the inflection, the high notes of a joke. It's all melody to me.

Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.

But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple.

Timing has a lot to with art.

At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.

The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

The notes I can handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes-ah, that is where the art resides.

The music is all around us, all you have to do is listen.

Dance is your words expressed with movement.

Dance is the language of artistic kinesis.

Dance is moving sculpture.

Surfing is attitude dancing.

My characters all start with rhythms and sounds. Once I hear the voice and get into the rhythm, the attitude and the physicality just come out on their own.

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