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Quotes About Rhythm

People comment on the way that I phrase. And in my 20s, I realized, my phrasing is jazz phrasing. I don't comply strictly with musical theater phrasing. Musical theater tends to be very one and three, and jazz is definitely two and four.
~ Brian Stokes Mitchell
I don't think we ever really think about it when we're doing it, because if you sort of go in with a plan of attack, it tends to take away the natural rhythm of songwriting.
~ Curt Smith
My brother is a musician and I'm in tennis.
~ Patrick Mouratoglou
When I make films, I don't think of any other directors or their work in terms of the rhythm of the editing or the tenor of the performances.
~ Hirokazu Kore-eda
Some music will make you dance. Other music helps you release tension.
~ Donovan
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
~ Allen Tate
I really enjoy listening to players on the cusp of swing into bebop like Charlie Shavers, Clifford Brown and Clark Terry. They balance immense facility on their instrument with rhythm, melody, and more complex harmonies of the time.
~ Bria Skonberg
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
~ Ray Davies
Puis, balançant la tête de droite à gauche, elle chantonna, comme s'il s'agissait d'une comptine : — Une dans le cœur, une dans la tête, et tout s'arrête.
~ Robert Muchamore
Hay momentos para recitar poesías y hay momentos para boxear.
~ Roberto Bolano
Hay momentos para recitar poesías y hay momentos para boxear».
~ Roberto Bolano
Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort o peace?
~ Robin Hobb
Está en la naturaleza del mundo que todas las cosas busquen un ritmo, y en ese ritmo anhelen una especie de paz?
~ Robin Hobb
Dawn came as early as it always does
~ Robin Hobb
Ah, Fitz, you should know by now that every moment of my life is spent dancing. And with every partner, I tread a different measure.
~ Robin Hobb
Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace? Certainly it has always seemed so to me. All events, no matter how earth-shaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living.
~ Robin Hobb
Clerres is the heart of the world, and the heartbeat of the world must always be steady.
~ Robin Hobb
Is it the nature of the world that all things seek a rhythm, and in that rhythm a sort of peace? Certainly it has always seemed so to me. All events, no matter how earthshaking or bizarre, are diluted within moments of their occurrence by the continuance of the necessary routines of day-to-day living. Men walking a battlefield to search for wounded among the dead will still stop to cough, to blow their noses, still lift their eyes to watch a V of geese in flight.
~ Robin Hobb
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~ Lisa Scottoline
The Singer with the pedal? Runs like a top.
~ Lisa Scottoline
Where drums beat, laws are silent.
~ Lisa Scottoline
You will never know what the meaning of Jazz is if ask what it means.
~ Louis Armstrong
He wastes no time yet is never hurried.
~ Louis L'Amour
Remember, Mother, it is always the seventh wave that goes farthest up the beach.
~ Rudyard Kipling