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Quotes About Rhythm

I need to be alone for certain periods of time or I violate my own rhythm.
~ Lee Krasner
The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.
~ Dan Millman
Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient, and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song.
~ Zoltan Kodaly
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
~ Bob Weir
Your heart beats 72 times a minute. Every time it beats, it does so with the permission of its Creator.
~ Khurram Murad
Music is not sound. Music is using sound to organize emotions in time.
~ Krystian Zimerman
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
~ W. H. Auden
Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.
~ Igor Stravinsky
And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.
~ Dava Sobel
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Music is...the coordination between man and time.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Funk never dies. It is eternal. It just smells a little different from time to time.
~ Questlove
I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time.
~ Moondog
There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.
~ Solomon
There is a time to dance to techno and a time not to.
~ Joe Strummer
Rhythm is form cut into time.
~ Ezra Pound
And all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time.
~ Andrew Marvell
Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
~ Dennis Bergkamp
Musicians are in-season all the time.
~ John Legend
My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.
~ Pete Wentz
There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.
~ Ricky Skaggs
Your heart is a drum keeping time with everyone.
~ Beck
I think at one time every drummer wanted to play like Krupa or wanted to win a Gene Krupa drum contest. This is the big inspiration for drummers and naturally it has to be the same way for me.
~ Buddy Rich
Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music.
~ Vanessa L. Williams