Quotes About Rhythm

Hip hop classes and ballet are what I've been keeping up with, and of course my usual abdominal workout, which consists of 500 sit-ups a session. Or I take a 30-minute abs class at my gym. But dance classes are a full-body cardio workout, which always brings me success and keeps me feeling great.

It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.

Dancing - however you do it, even if it's in your living room - is a great workout.

There is something about dancing that just makes me feel alive, and it's an amazing workout.

My favorite workouts are the ones that don't feel like I'm working out! So, dance is a big one. Another is any kind of isolated moves, like ballet moves. Anything that works the glutes and legs - sign me up! And I like to blast the music. I have to get lost in the music. That helps.

Dancing is the best exercise. Not only is it great cardio, but it works everything, strengthening your whole body.

I'm no dancer. I got rhythm, I can dance if I need to, but I'm not Chris Brown. He's an amazing dancer. If I'm not going to be amazing at it, I'm not gon' do it. I'm gonna do what works for me, and you're going to feel it 'cause it's me.

I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around.

I listen to world music a lot.

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

My stride is perfect for 15 steps till I cross the seventh hurdle when I switch to 17 steps.

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Music can have a real timeless quality - and, really, it's all about energy.

Life is about timing.

Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm.

One thing I've learned from 'Strictly' is timing and the craft of the talk.

Do you know what the key to comedy is? Timing.

It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

Acting is all about timing. I mean, who has better timing than the MCs?

It's going to come down to executing, trying to keep guys off balance and disrupting timing. That's something you can do regardless of how many times you face a lineup or face certain hitters.

There's timing in drama. You have to have a sense of rhythm. But the real thing that lends yourself to drama as opposed to comedy is a sense from the audience of whether there's more to it than you can see.