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Quotes About Rhythm

Dance music is an emotional journey. It's how well you can make people feel something that they haven't felt.
~ Steve Aoki
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
~ David Byrne
Constant rhythmical movement is necessary to health and harmony. Much ill health is due to emotional congestion.
~ Emmet Fox
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.
~ Bruce Springsteen
I've found that writing novels is an all-absorbing experience - both physical and mental - and I have to do it every day in order to keep the rhythm, to keep myself focused on what I'm doing.
~ Paul Auster
The Christian year has a rhythm, each season its own tonality and coloration. Without Lent, the year is bland.
~ Unknown
New year is a day, to tune the rhythm called SOUL, with best chords called EXPERIENCES and play the guitar called LIFE.
~ Vikrmn
The sun and the moon have yet to miss a date, The ocean tides have never arrived early, or late, Just as Discernment Deep into Natures Rhymes, Reveal No Extent To The Sublime.
~ Marrett Green
A thousand was the number Agamemnon's bards had started using; one thousand, one hundred and eighty-six didn't fit well in a line of verse.
~ Madeline Miller
Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free.
~ Madonna
Ritual is not compatible with the rapid rhythm that industrialism has injected into life. So whenever ritual happens in a place commanded by or dominated by a machine, ritual becomes a statement against the very rhythm that feeds the needs of that machine. It makes no difference whether it is a political machine or otherwise. I
~ Malidoma Patrice Some
Interestingly, a part of the cortisol secretion rhythm is related to the sleep/wake rhythm, and another part is coupled to the body temperature rhythm.
~ Unknown
Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.
~ Marcel Marceau
A little tap at the window, as though some missile had struck it, followed by a plentiful, falling sound, as light, though, as if a shower of sand were being sprinkled from a window overhead; then the fall spread, took on an order, a rhythm, became liquid, loud, drumming, musical, innumerable, universal. It was the rain
~ Marcel Proust
guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference of quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.
~ Marcel Proust
endowing the imperfect and the preterite with all the sweetness which there is in generosity, all the melancholy which there is in love; guided the sentence that was drawing to an end towards that which was waiting to begin, now hastening, now slackening the pace of the syllables so as to bring them, despite their difference in quantity, into a uniform rhythm, and breathed into this quite ordinary prose a kind of life, continuous and full of feeling.
~ Marcel Proust
Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.
~ John Muir
When you regain a sense of your life as a journey of discovery, you return to rhythm with yourself. When you take the time to travel with reverence, a richer life unfolds before you. Moments of beauty begin to braid your days.
~ John O'Donohue
The spirituality of the rural mind does not see time as routine or treadmill; time is a far more precious space where crevices open into the infinite, and where the rhythm of the eternal is felt to preside.
~ John O'Donohue
When you are in rhythm with your nature, nothing destructive can touch you. Providence is at one with you; it minds you and brings you to new horizons. To be spiritual is to be in rhythm.
~ John O'Donohue
The only difference between dancing and fucking, he said in those days, is that you don't fuck in front of a live band.
~ John Sayles
Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that.
~ John Steinbeck
In their millions the frog songs seemed to have a beat and a cadence, and perhaps it is the ears' function to do this just as it is the eyes' business to make stars twinkle.
~ John Steinbeck
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.
~ John Steinbeck