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Quotes About Rhythm

Time itself comes in drops.
~ William James
You better go to someone else for words. All I know is, there are some drums that sound good together and some that don't. I think we sound good together.
~ David Bischoff
I do seem to like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
~ David Byrne
I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
~ David Byrne
Musicians sort of knew this already—that the emotional center is not the technical center, that funky grooves are not square, and what sounds like a simple beat can either be sensuous or simply a metronomic timekeeper, depending on the player.
~ David Byrne
emerged from dance-oriented early hip-hop (which, like jazz, evolved by extending the breaks for dancers), it's morphed into something else entirely: music that sounds best in cars. People do dance in their cars, or they try to.
~ David Byrne
Et il est compliqué de vivre avec un coeur qui ne bat que de temps à autre.
~ David Foenkinos
As morning approaches, body temperature rises, then peaks during the day, dips for a time in early afternoon (when many people take siestas), and begins to drop again in the evening. Thinking is sharpest and memory most accurate when we are at our daily peak in circadian arousal. Try pulling an all - nighter or working an occasional night shift. You'll feel groggiest in the middle of the night but may gain new energy when your normal wake - up time arrives.
~ David G. Myers
Robbie Robertson of the Band said he always knew when they were playing in the south, because that's where everybody claps on the backbeat. Exactly.
~ David K. Kirby
Everything has its time
~ David Lagercrantz
You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.
~ David Lee Roth
Words his soul danced to.
~ David Malouf
From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen - The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?
~ Charles Baudelaire
I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.
~ Pearl Bailey
All God's Chillun got Rhythm.
~ Gus Kahn
I've never seen a Lindy Hopper who wasn't smiling. It's a happy dance. It makes you feel good.
~ Frankie Manning
Good rock music always tends to be around.
~ Dave Davies
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
~ Levon Helm
Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.
~ Langston Hughes
What's really good is African drum music.
~ Fiona Apple
Music should make you feel good.
~ Mark Klepaski
I got a rhythm going. The guys just did a good job of putting the ball in my hands.
~ Dwyane Wade
The fact is that, unless you are very good, most first movies are too long, and you lose your rhythm and your audience over two or three hours.
~ Jean-Luc Godard
As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.
~ Jesse Eisenberg