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Quotes About Rhythm

Music is a science, in many ways it's mathematical.
~ Steve Winwood
Music, to me, is not math or science. It is a language.
~ Russell Malone
The drum in a dream pounds loud to the dreamer.
~ Carl Sandburg
We all have our own rhythms to walk to.
~ Lauren Lola, A Moment's Worth
All life is a rhythm, " she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes.
~ Samuel R. Delany
Blood cannot be without dancing. There is no dancing without blood.
~ Cameron Conaway, Bonemeal
music has always been a celebration of the ineradicability of life.
~ Achille Mbembe
Family life is by its nature cocooned, and expatriate family life doubly so. We had many friends and a few intimate ones, but it is in the nature of family rhythm—up too early, asleep too soon—to place you on a margin, and to the essential joy—just the three of us!—was added the essential loneliness, just the three of us.
~ Adam Gopnik
U re u re na-nam Gi re gi re na-nam Mu re mu re na-nam
~ Adam Nicolson
He puts on Sam Cooke's Night Beat.
~ Adrian McKinty
The poetry, you see, was when he moved. -- Dream Done Green
~ Alan Dean Foster
Booty Butt, Booty Butt, Booty Butt Cheeks
~ DESCARTES
A wave never strikes the shoreline twice
~ Dianne Marie Teresa Cole
Spring-tension hips were thrust high and forward and moving rhythmically for an even more disturbing effect.
~ Don Pendleton
This kid, he has to remember, this freaking junior varsity water boy, cut the heads off five men and rolled them across a disco floor like he was duckpin bowling. Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm, Eddie thinks.
~ Don Winslow
Where I come from we say that rhythm is the soul of life, because the whole universe revolves around rhythm, and when we get out of rhythm, that's when we get into trouble.
~ Babatunde Olatunji
It's just life, so keep dancing through.
~ Stephen Schwartz
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.
~ Margaret Mead
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
~ Plato
There is always a delightful sense of movement, vibration and life.
~ Theodore Robinson
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me.
~ Khalil Gibran
I am the joy of life expressing and receiving in perfect rhythm.
~ Louise Hay
I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.
~ Isadora Duncan
Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
~ John Frusciante