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Quotes About Rhythm

I like trains. I like their rhythm, and I like the freedom of being suspended between two places, all anxieties of purpose taken care of: for this moment I know where I am going.
~ Anna Funder
The only excuse for dancing is grace and beauty of movement.
~ Anna Pavlova
Rhythm is a fundamental fact of life, the key, indeed, to the universe.
~ Anna Pavlova
He dribbled noise.
~ Anne Enright
It is without grace. There is no rhythm in this country of dirt.
~ Anne Sexton
Everything felt better when you knew what time it was. Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes in an hour. There was always order, if you knew where to look.
~ Anne Ursu
A schedule defends from chaos and whim.
~ Annie Dillard
Il silenzio era il sottofondo delle cose e la bicicletta misurava la velocità della vita.
~ Annie Ernaux
All life is rhythmic. From the rise and fall of the sun to the rise and fall of our breath, from the beating of our heart to the infinite vibrations of atomic particles within our cells, we are a mass of vibrations that miraculously resonate together as a single system.
~ Anodea Judith
All life is rhythmic. From the rise and fall of the sun to the rise and fall of our breath, from the beating of our heart to the infinite vibrations of atomic particles within our cells, we are a mass of vibrations that miraculously resonate together as a single system. In fact, our ability to function as a unified whole depends upon the coherent resonance of the many subtle vibrations within us. The task of the fifth chakra is to enhance this resonance.
~ Anodea Judith
I've always felt a great affinity with music. I've felt myself to be more of a musician than anything else, though I'm not proficient in any one instrument. But I think I have a musical sense of things... and writing seems to me to be a musical experience - rhythmically and in many other ways.
~ Sam Shepard
Light is a profound degrader of our sleep.
~ Matthew Walker
You know, as I'm progressing with my sound, I just realize when you got a simple sound with crazy percussion in the beats, it makes it. It kinda shapes my sound when it comes to what makes a Tay Keith beat.
~ Tay Keith
Percussion is the most adaptable family of instruments. The biggest challenge is to project percussion in a lyrical way.
~ Evelyn Glennie
My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.
~ Anton du Beke
You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.
~ Sandra Bullock
I know that a song is working when I can properly dance on it.
~ Christine and the Queens
If you are an autodidact, you probably do write more in the rhythm of speech rather than having learnt prose.
~ Viv Albertine
I want to live like music sounds.- Ruth
~ Eva Ibbotson
It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down, as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.        
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald