Quotes About Rhythm

I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

Apart from being a trained dancer, I love exploring new styles of dancing.

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself.

I'll read pretty much anywhere and anytime, but for a while now, I've really enjoyed reading on flights, especially the longer hauls, when I'm unplugged from everything and can completely immerse myself in the world of a book and submit happily to its rhythms, perspectives, ideas.

Mick Jagger knows how to run a show. It's all about pacing. It's not a sprint, it's a marathon. His output is amazing, but his movements are subtle. As I get older, I'll have to adhere to these rules.

Dad was pretty solid. He had great grooves and there was occasional moments of sheer brilliance with fills and things, but in general, the sheer brilliance is the simplicity, how much groove, how much feel he had, all the subtleties that we miss.

I lived in Paris for two years with my family. I would roam the streets of Paris during the day for a few hours in the subway, on the streets, and I listened to the French language, and I got a sense of the rhythm and the melody of the language.

Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away.

When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.

Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.

Show a leg or shake a leg.

It was soporific to be mindlessly shunted about in a vehicle, to succumb to marijuana, the heat, the rhythm and roar of the jeep

Fat black bucks in a wine-barrel room,Barrel-house kings; with feet unstable,Sagged and reeled and pounded on the table,Pounded on the table,Beat an empty barrel with the handle of a broom.

Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun.

Lots of things happen in a woman's body, and nothing works exactly on schedule.

Movement is the song of the body.

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Music is what our feelings sound like.

La musique avant toute chose

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David?

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.