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Quotes About Rhythm

The rhythm of editing, the length of a frame- these are not merely dictated by the professional need to establish a link with the audience (as they are thought to be). They express the character and the originality of the author of the film. At the present time cineastes use editing rhythm to gild the pill that has to be swallowed by the unfortunate audience. According to me, entirely in order to make money.
~ Andrei Tarkovsky
She is talking about the birds, awakening in harmony and bedding down in discord.
~ Andrew Sean Greer
The past believed in dates. And everyone's life consisted of dates, giving life a rhythm and sense of gradation, as if from the eminence of a date one could look back and down, and see the past itself. A clear, comprehensible past, divided up into squares of events, lines of paths taken.
~ Andrey Kurkov
A sabbathless life ends up with neither true work nor true rest, but with frantic and ineffective activity punctuated by couch-potato lethargy.
~ Andy Crouch
Nothing can stop the words so well as the mute alphabet of knit and purl. The curl of your cupped hand scoops up long drinks of calm. The rhythm you find is from down inside, rocking cradle, heartbeat, ocean. Waves on a rockless shore.
~ Ann Hood
And I began to dance too.
~ Ann M. Martin
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
~ Samuel Johnson
ACATALECTIC  (ACATALE'CTIC)   n.s.[  Gr.]A verse which has the compleat number of syllables, without defect or superfluity.
~ Samuel Johnson
Maybe it was just part of growing up with someone. Once you have a rhythm and stay with it long enough, it's not hard to find again.
~ Sarah Dessen
Reality has a pulse, a rhythm, for lack of better words.
~ Scott Adams
their medals and shoes played percussion
~ Scott Adams
The rhythm," said Goethe, "is an unconscious result of the poetic mood. If one should stop to consider it mechanically, when about to write a poem, one would become bewildered and accomplish nothing of real poetical value."—Ibid.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is something magical in rhythm; it even makes us believe that we possess the sublime.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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~ John Berger
Po motin? mirties laikas dažnai padvigubina arba padidina greit?.
~ John Berger
The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.
~ John Cage
Around them, the city moved to its own hidden heartbeat, a rhythm that varied from hour to hour, tied to the movements of the individuals that inhabited it so that sometimes he found it hard to tell if the city dictated the lifestyles of its people, or the people influenced the life of the city.
~ John Connolly
It should here be added that poetry habitually takes the form of verse.
~ John Drinkwater
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
~ John Dryden
Dancing is the poetry of the foot.
~ John Dryden
Life is like an eternal dance. The movements of the dance are choreographed through your awareness.
~ Deepak Chopra
Music has always been part of my life.
~ Jade Hassoune
Bravura has nothing to do with technique. It's all about timing and oozing life.
~ Kevin McKenzie
Dance is a life, everyday. don't miss it. You're in bodies, you can move... Where is your joy?
~ Mary Anthony