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Quotes About Rhythm

It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
~ Chuck Berry
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul
~ Plato
Dance is music made visible
~ George Balanchine
Life is a lot like jazz. It's best when you improvise.
~ George Gershwin
Music must be seen, and dance must be heard
~ George Balanchine
Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are
~ Tom DeLonge
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.
~ Isidore of Seville
The music of Africa is big sound: it's the sound of a community
~ Fela Kuti
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
~ Maya Angelou
I cannot move, I cannot even want to move, unless I hear the music first.
~ George Balanchine
The roots of Cuban music are in my head.
~ Compay Segundo
My dance is a sacred poem in which each movement is a word and whose every word is underlined by music. The temple in which I dance can be vague or faithfully reproduced, for I am the temple.
~ Mata Hari
Music rearranges your molecular structure.
~ Carlos Santana
Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.
~ Wes Montgomery
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
~ Keith Richards, Life
To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.
~ Aaron Copland
As long as the music stayed hot and important and good, that there would always be a reason for 'Soul Train'
~ Don Cornelius
Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.
~ Michael Jackson
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
~ Victor Wooten
The two things you can't fake are good food and good music
~ Etta James
To me, music is emotion and if when you're listening to it and it doesn't make you feel that, then it's not music.
~ Austin Carlile
Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat.
~ Carmen McRae
I grew up with reggae music.
~ Youssou N'Dour