Quotes About Rhythm

Everything that happened to me as a child involved music. It was part of everyday life, as automatic as breathing.

To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?

What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Good music always defeats bad luck

You don't need any brains to listen to music.

Music should either move your feet or move your heart

Keep on listening & tapping your feet.

Disco is just pop music you can dance to.

...if you get confused, just listen to the music play.

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

I see my life in terms of music.

Classical music is far from boring - it has all the blood, energy, the sinister dark side, rhythm that rock music has, and all the refined, subtle sensuality that one can ask for

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you.

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!

I think everybody can agree that you can hear a certain song and it will put you in a certain mood, and that's just the beauty of music and I am so inspired by that.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

Humor is like music. It's a rhythm, and you just kind of get the rhythm of it, and you have to know not to let the beat go too long, but to leave a beat in there for it to gel.

I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

The only form of music is melody, without melody music is not feasible, and music and melody are quite inseparable.

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it