Quotes About Rhythm

Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.

I have to go at a good pace because how you practice, that's how you play.

I'm trying to change up the pace in which I approach life so I'm not always go, go, go.

I prefer to work at my own pace.

We want to always play with pace on offence.

I can't stop, I always have to try and keep a good pace and that's what I'll do.

You know, the NFL, they do things at their own pace.

I think there's something to be said about pacing yourself.

There is a rhythm to a good joke, a certain pacing.

My heart started running away, like a pack of horses. Then it slowed down and became irregular.

I love Jimi Hendrix obviously, and Jimmy Page and Prince. And also Elvis Presley is a really great guitar player. I don't think he ever took lessons; he was piecing it together himself. But he has great rhythm. And rhythm, to me, you can use it to your advantage if you're not all over the fretboard.

When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm.

I rewrite a lot until I get the rhythm and story right on the page.

The rhythmic feel of 'Dark Days In Paradise' is completely different to anything I've ever done before. There's a lot of drum loops on there, but used in conjunction with real drums: a lot of influence from hip-hop and dance music, with the keyboard sound and sequencing.

I love Parliament Funkadelic.

They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it.

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Dancehall has always had a homophobic problem, but you go to dance parties in Jamaica, and some of the biggest dancers are kinda gay, just not outspoken about it. Dancehall was the first kind of music I was DJing, and it was always more about the rhythm.

Before I got into stand-up, I used to be a hip-hop dancer in a crew, and my name was J. Smoove, and my partner was J. Groove.

Anytime I'm at a club or a party, I'm dancing from beginning to end.

The stones plunked dismally, sinking one after the other.

Talk about dance? Dance is not something to talk about. Dance is to dance.

Sabbath provides for us now an additional rhythm for an entire reorientation of our lives around the living God. On Sabbaths we imitate God by stopping our work and resting.

You Can't Live at Warp Speed without Warping Your Soul