Quotes About Rhythm

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

It's a great idea: to feel the rhythm of something by seeing how it flows on a page.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.

Life is only a misery, without music.

Into the promise of happiness, synchronizing the rhythm of our lives to the turning of the leaves and the rise and fall of the tides.

The melody of music makes my heart merry.

Dancing ignite a blissful body, soul and spirit.

Music makes my soul happy.

There's no better way to take care of health than through something as joyous and beautiful as dance.

Music is important for one's health.

Music can lead people to greater health and happiness.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

I find that doing the drums last, coming from a drum history, really works well for me.

I'm not the kind of guy who sits around at home and writes songs. Once in a while I'll pick up a guitar and noodle around, but it's rare.

Fancy, like the finger of a clock, Runs the great circuit, and is still at home.

Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.