Rhythm Quotes

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous. (Yehudi Menuhin)
Vision is the true creative rhythm. View quote
Robert Delaunay
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. View quote
Ray Charles
The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. View quote
Aldous Huxley
I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. View quote
Ken Hensley
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. View quote
Piet Mondrian
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't. View quote
Ben Kingsley
My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails. View quote
Dolly Parton
As I watched the seagulls, I thought: "That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust." View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing. View quote
Kathy Acker
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. (Federico García Lorca)
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man Who could ask for anything more. View quote
Ira Gershwin
I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through. View quote
Per Petterson
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life/. View quote
B.K.S. Iyengar
To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing. View quote
Jesse Helms
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area. View quote
Bill Bruford
Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write. View quote
Dennis Brown
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. View quote
Etta James
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently. View quote
Florenz Ziegfeld
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones' feeling, anyone's feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man. View quote
Ike Turner
I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road, As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland; Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance, By pulling off flesh from the living planet; As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration. (Theodore Roethke)
Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: you have to learn the rhythm of respiration, acquire the pace; otherwise you stop right away. View quote
Umberto Eco
For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. View quote
Françoise Sagan
An uneasy rhythm of life is more life like than an easy death. View quote
Suman Pokhrel
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. View quote
Roland Barthes