Quotes About Rhythm

The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.

If you've got a verse with a lot of rhythm, you want to pair it with something that doesn't.

You can always hear me breathing during my verses, but that breathing becomes part of the music.

I adored being at the RSC and working on the verse and getting the iambic pentameter right. You just skim across the surface, and the speech is over before you know it. You can just ride along on the music of it.

The bands were everywhere, close and faraway, a blend of discordant noise. He passed close to one now, a half-dozen drummers pounding away, a sergeant leading them in a rhythm that was no rhythm at all, and behind, men with fifes, squealing out something that had no resemblance to a song.

The rythm of our bodies, she believed, is linked to our souls' pulse. 'Praying For Sleep

It was morning by the clock but deepest nighttime in his body.

We passed the sticky receiver from ear to ear, the drumbeats so regular we might have been pressing our ears to the girls' chests

I'm a morning person and a night person. So I have to be a nap person, or else I'm a tired person.

Jeri Smith-Ready

Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

My mum always says work goes in waves: you have a good spell and then it dips.

Hey sister, you're just moving too fast, you're screwing up the quota.

But work a year and sleep an hour, and sleep a night and sing a day, And take a little wine and love, and when you feel religious—pray.

I don't want to work, I want to bang on the drum all day.

When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just moving their arms and limbs. They're stuck behind the drum set. So to film someone playing the drums and make it feel as kinetic as a car chase or a shootout or a battle scene was the challenge.

I studied the Ghanaian drums and bongo drumming.

I studied voice and piano fairly seriously during my elementary and high school days, and as such, I became very attuned to rhythm and cadence and voice.

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

I love getting to work with the stunt coordinator. It's like choreography, like a dance.

My style is simple. It is out and out melody.

I was drawn to West Africa. I did listen to a bunch of different styles of African music, and there was something about the percussion and the drums of West Africa, and the energy, that felt so cinematic to me.