Quotes About Rhythm

While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Play the music, not the instrument.

Music is what feelings sound like.

Life is a song. Love is the music.

Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Now it is as if she can hear the pendulum in the air in front of her: that huge golden bob, as wide across as a barrel, swinging on and on, never stopping. Grooving and regrooving its inhuman truth into the floor.

There there is music, almost always music.

Four or five or six or a million heartbeats roll by.

The music of the poem lends meaning to the words, and the meaning of the words lends music to the poem.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

If you grow up somewhere where the pace of life is very slow you enjoy the gaps between the pulses. I read a lot and, boy, did I practise the piano.

Pulse as an active means of expression, Stravinsky and Beethoven are the two masters of that.

When you write, it's making a certain kind of music in your head. There's a rhythm to it, a pulse, and on the whole, I'm writing to that drum rather than the psychological process.

We just love international music. We love the climate of that sound, it's that pulse that we just have to appreciate.

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

Rock & roll doesn't belong on a grid. It belongs on a pulse - a natural pulse.

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

Nothing gets my blood pumping like a little Animotion.

I like the rhythm of comedy in dramas, if that makes sense. In other words, I don't want to write setup, punch, setup, punch, where the joke dictates the scene; I want to find comedy in which the drama is actually driving the moment in the scene.

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.

I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.