Quotes About Rhythm

Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future, therefore you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go, but more important it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey.

Jazz will endure just as long as people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Pentatonické ladÄ›ní harfy je hudebním protÄ›jÅ¡kem vynálezu kola.

O jazz moderno e a música clássica moderna, por vezes, fazem questão em usar cinco, sete, onze, etc. pulsações por compasso (muitas vezes apenas para terem um ar inteligente e invulgar) mas são poucos os êxitos realmente populares.

A métrica, o ritmo e o andamento todos têm o seu papel no nosso prazer. Ainda que os nossos batimentos cardíacos não estejam ligados ao andamento, certamente que consideramos andamentos mais lentos como sendo mais relaxantes e mais empolgantes os que são mais rápidos. Esta tensão estará provavelmente ligada ao facto de não gostarmos da incerteza e, especialmente, ao nosso receio de não conseguirmos lidar com uma situação.

Musical rests

Titanides were masters of song. Their whole language was song; music was as important to them as food.

The Heart of the Plains is always beating.

When meter is honored over thythm, line over syntax, form over structure, even the most prodigious manipulation of traditional patterns may be rendered purely decorative.

Each month of the calendar is divided into a dark half and a light half and each day is designated

Breathing, it seemed to me, was a proper attribute for the mountains... mountains that quietly functioned as a single thing with a rhythmic inhale-exhale I could feel...

It runs and spins and wags its little tail like a metronome that has lost its mind.

I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don't you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.

I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.

She rose with the grace that was inherent to her every move ... Perhaps she did everything to a rhythm only she could hear.

she was playing something so low and soft that it felt as if she were humming it ... notes built and subsided, as if a giant were softly breathing them, as if each note was a drop of water going down a stream filled with rocks.

She counted the seconds with the beats of her heart.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

I didn't know anything then about odd-metered bars of music, but as Burt told me years later, you don't count those beats, you just feel them and the tension that they create.

Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.

There was some rhythm, some ecstasy in this dance of flight that expressed the fact that happiness which touches depths and rises beyond physical confines is as old as consciousness, yet ever renewed, and is like the glorying flight of the birds

Extazul muzical este o revenire la identitate, la origi-nar, la r?d?cinile primare ale existenÅ£ei. În el r?mâne numai ritmul pur al existenÅ£ei, curentul imanent ÅŸi or-ganic al vieÅ£ii. Aud viaÅ£a. De aici încep toate revelaÅ£iile.

The mind's 'seasons' are conditioned by an organic rhythm; it is not up to 'me' to be naïve or cynical: my truths are the sophisms of my enthusiasm or of my dejection.