Quotes About Rhythm

The story was the price you paid for the rhythm.

You cannot avoid hearing drums in Haiti.

Words walking without masters; walking altogether like harmony in a song.

you switches a mean fanny round in a kitchen.

Daisy is a walking drum tune. You can almost hear it by looking at the way she walks.

Arcade Fire always churns out music that makes me want to move.

Come day, go day, as the old folks say,

To watch us dance is to hear our hearts speak.

I would talk in iambic pentameter if it were easier.

Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.

What do I sing, and what does my tambourine sing?

Qué es lo que canto y qué es lo que mi tambor canta?

getting back into the rhythmn of a happy, healthy life

The second Sterling session saw the birth of one of Hank's trademarks, the "crack" rhythm: an electric guitar keeping time on the deadened bass strings. Without drums in his lineup, Hank used the electric guitar to emphasize the pulse. It was the sound that Johnny Cash later made into a trademark, adding a little rhythmic flourish to make "boom-chicka-boom.

We have faith … Our music is never counting. For us the One is always Now. In time whether it's 7/4 time, 4/4 time, or whatever—we're always coming back to the One.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

The English critic George Saintsbury once compared the act of sentence making--the letting out and pulling in of clauses--to the letting out and pulling in of the slide of a trombone or the "draws" of a telescope.

Phrases can build grace into sentences. Taut declarations lend clarity, but too many of them can start to sound like a Dick-and-Jane story. A strategically placed phrase can turn a staccato burst into a more lyrical sentence. This is what we mean by "turning a phrase"—using our command of language and our mastery of the rhythms of a sentence to affect style as well as substance

The rest of the evening moved with the inevitability of good music.

There seemed to be a pattern to the drips from each seep, a pattern I had heard before, wondering each time if there might be a sort of specific timing.... The sounds were predisposed, unaware of anything more important than their own syncopation.

I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can "age without aging." The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm.

I roamed alone; O, barren dreams. My echoed voice, what lonely comfort. Here is my salvation: I hear the triumph drum; the rhythm of the rising, the long-awaited sun.