Quotes About Rhythm

As a performer, I groove to my own songs.

For me, the energy when I'm DJ'ing should be about the dance floor and not about the person performing.

Whether it's dance or action, what's important is hand and body co-ordination. When you are a good dancer then automatically while performing action, the co-ordination is that much easier.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of his own accord bring rhythm again into the chaos.

The world is but a perpetual see-saw.

If I want to dance, I listen to Meghan Trainor, Katy Perry, Justin Timeberlake.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

Nothing persists, said the ancient sages: everything changes, everything flows, everything becomes; consequently, everything remains and everything is connected; by further consequence the entire universe is opposition, balance, equilibrium. There is nothing, neither outside nor inside, apart from that eternal dance; and the rhythm that commands it,

Everything is energy in motion.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten imparting grace.

Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

Tanpa keberanian hidup adalah tanpa irama. Hidup tanpa irama adalah samadhi tanpa pusat.

Tanpa keberanian hidup adalah tanpa irima. Hidup tanpa irama adalah samadhi tanpa pusat.

Rock Steady' by Aretha Franklin, 'Cold Sweat' by James [Brown], all the Stax records, Ike and Tina Turner – we took it for granted, thinking that music would always be like that. That was just normal to us.

Rhythm came from Africa. We need 2 stop frontin' about that. Rhythm and heartbeats.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

The movement of life has to rest in its own music.

The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

Is it beyond thee to be glad with the gladness of this rhythm? to be tossed and lost and broken in the whirl of this fearful joy? All things rush on, they stop not, they look not behind, no power can hold them back, they rush on. Keeping steps with that restless, rapid music, seasons come dancing and pass away---colours, tunes, and perfumes pour in endless cascades in the abounding joy that scatters and gives up and dies every moment.

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. -Rabindranath Tagore

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.