Quotes About Rhythm

Music structures time. By imposing order, music ensures that the emotions aroused by a particular event peak at the same moment.

Participating in music, whether as performer or listener, brings us into contact with greatness, and leaves traces of that greatness as permanent impressions. I share Plato's conviction that musical training is a potent instrument 'because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul'.

Music can order our muscular system. I believe that it is also able to order our mental contents.

and so I opened my eyes and I opened my mind and I saw something I never would have noticed on a bicycle unless I was going very, very fast down a very long hill. Because of the speed of the bus and how I was exerting no effort, the telephone wires on the side of the road, sagging between poles, went up and down with the same rhythm as my heartbeat.

Si hay ciclista, no monta la bicicleta como si fuera una de esas maquinas brutales de los gimnasio, sino que se pasea demoradamente en ella, inclinado sobre el manillar, mirando a su alrededor, acompasado su pedaleo al ritmo apaciguado de las cosas.

Studying mice, they discovered a "master clock" in a region of the brain (the dorsomedial nucleus) that can reset the circadian rhythm when faced with a shortage of food. The thinking is that when food is not an issue, lightness and darkness synchronize our sleep cycle. But when food is scarce, another system kicks in to synchronize our sleep cycle with our ability to find food.

Once dialogue had come in, Nature herself discovered the appropriate measure. For the iambic is, of all measures, the most colloquial.

Dancing imitates character, emotion, and action, by rhythmical movement.

Though your game is hardly the best You can fray your opponent's nerves By methodically bouncing the ball At least ten times before your serves.

What people would qualify as R&B is, for me, just soul. And I love honesty and soul and heavy, crunchy beats that move you and make you breathe a little bit faster.

The fight scenes in 'The World's End' have a certain balletic quality to them.

When you've got a quarterback's rhythm in the game, you can be a pretty deadly pass rusher.

I like to dribble to Queen's 'Another One Bites the Dust.'

I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.'

I love the language of, you know, the old black country man with a blues guitar and... boots and the quick banter.

I find inspiration and rhythm in everything. Really I do. And I find inspiration in the really quiet moments.

Egyptian drumming happens to be a favorite of mine. It's a really simple instrument, but it's really difficult to play. You can take it anywhere with you - you can play it in your room, in an airport. It's very quiet, so you explore the quiet side.

I was part of Jazzercise class. It was an aerobics routine accompanied by loud music, sounding quite awful to me. Jazzercise was popular in the '80s and '90s.

My drum parts are a song within the song; that's the way I look at writing my drum parts. They follow patterns, and they're written to interact with the rest of the band. There's quite a bit of thought that goes into it.

Call me the Scatman. I do quite a bit of scattin'.

I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.

I used to be a really great dancer. I used to do it quite a lot and then I stopped. Now my body has forgotten all that training.

I was raised hearing music everywhere I went.

I listen to all kinds of music myself; it can range from practically anything: Opera, Jazz, to Blues, good Pop, just about anything.