Rhythm Quotes - page 3

Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail. (Kathleen Raine)
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant.. Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. View quote
Richard Aldington
Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game. View quote
Jacques Plante
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard. View quote
Little Richard
It does not follow from the separation of planning and doing in the analysis of work that the planner and the doer should be two different people. It does not follow that the industrial world should be divided into two classes of people: a few who decide what is to be done, design the job, set the pace, rhythm and motions, and order others about; and the many who do what and as they are told. View quote
Peter Drucker
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. View quote
Eduard Hanslick
My ego only needs a good rhythm section. View quote
Miles Davis
You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Oh God, Frankie, I breathe in rhythm with that man. You think that's not my flesh and blood after all these years? View quote
Melina Marchetta
I changed the course of my life, from the rigidity of mathematics and the corporate rhythm to a more bohemian world. View quote
Andrea Hirata
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest. (P. J. O'Rourke)
All life is a rhythm,” she said as I sat up. "All death is rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life resumes. View quote
Samuel R. Delany
Splendid to arrive alone in a foreign country and feel the assault of difference. Here they are all along, busy with living; they don't talk or look like me. The rhythm of their day is entirely different; I am foreign. View quote
Frances Mayes
I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty. View quote
Hermann Maier
Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love? View quote
Eugene O'Neill
The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that. View quote
Victor Wooten
We all share in the same cosmic rhythm... For all natural laws are like the rhythm of the strings of the harp. View quote
Ernesto Cardenal
For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music. View quote
Isabelle Huppert
We've created an unnatural form of running. It's not just the shoes, but we run on artificial surfaces - straight ahead, hard and steady - instead of speeding up and slowing down, reacting to the terrain with changes of pace and rhythm. View quote
Christopher McDougall
The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions. View quote
Christian Bale
I found out was, by the rhythm of my chewing, how I chewed fast, slow or what have you, I could tell the audience what my character was thinking and feeling. (Rod Steiger)
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. View quote
Philip Glass
Keep your language. Love its sounds, its modulation, its rhythm. But try to march together with men of different languages, remote from your own, who wish like you for a more just and human world. View quote
Hélder Câmara
Music and comedy are so linked. The rhythm of comedy is con­nected to the rhythm of music. They're both about creating tension and knowing when to let it go. I'm always surprised when somebody funny is not musical. View quote
Conan O'Brien
As the skipping rope hit the pavement, so did the ball. As the rope curved over the head of the jumping child, the child with the ball caught the ball. Down came the ropes. Down came the balls. Over and over again. Up. Down. All in rhythm. All identical. Like the houses. Like the paths. Like the flowers. View quote
Madeleine L'Engle