Quotes About Rhythm

You've the beat of a dancer to a measure or harmonious rush of a porpoise at the prow where the racers all win easily— like centaurs' legs in tune, as when kettledrums compete; nose rigid and suede nostrils spread, a light left hand on the rein, till well—this is a rhapsody.

As the music stops you'll miss its lilt. Keep dancing, keep listening. Speak up. Ask for more music, more. In case you don't know, what you want is magnificent, yours for the asking, the rhythm of magnanimous exchange.

There's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music.

The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

Fast is only cool if it's melodic and has substance.

I don't know what to say so I'll just say what's in my heart...badoom, badoom, badoom.

In the rhythm of Life, we sometime find ourselves out of tune, But as long as there are friends & family to provide the melody, The music plays on.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

Conversationally, we were Fred and Ginger -- spin, slide, shuffle, bend.

When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When

The thing is, my father has about as much rhythm as a drunken octopus […]

It is therefore not implausible that there is a connection between the rhythm of the body involved in running and the presence of the brain activity involved in higher cognitive functions.

Even when choosing stillness we are still moving, our hearts beating, breath flowing, all our systems at work.

Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

I think, in comedy, timing is everything. You and I could tell the same joke, but if one of our timing is off, it won't be as funny. You've gotta know when to deliver your punch-lines.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

DeShaies is like a clock out there. Every other pitch goes one way or the other.