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Quotes About Rhythm

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.
~ Steven Adler
From the beginning, I wanted to make dance music with a human element to it.
~ Beth Orton
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
~ Tommy Lee
The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.
~ Esa-Pekka Salonen
And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
~ Jacques Roumain
All dancing is now is standing in place and letting the devil of the music enter you.
~ John Updike
I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.
~ Paulo Coelho
The Universe is making music all the time.
~ Tom Waits
Canned music is like audible wallpaper.
~ Alistair Cooke
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
~ Charles Kennedy
I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.
~ Rita Dove
Music is half the film.
~ Matthew Vaughn
Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.
~ Lou Reed
Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
~ Herb Pomeroy
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
~ Zoe Saldana
But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.
~ Casey Kasem
We found a great rhythm. Contractions started kicking in. I sat there with her, right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJ-ing this Brazilian music.
~ Matthew McConaughey
Music is that which takes silence and brings it to life.
~ Plato
You can't make jazz without using certain elements of Latin music.
~ Jelly Roll Morton
Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music.
~ Compay Segundo
Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.
~ Chubby Checker
I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.
~ Twyla Tharp
I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.
~ David Lynch
Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.
~ Dick Cavett