Rhythm Quotes - Page 12

• Who gave you the ability to contemplate the beauty of the skies, the course of the sun, the round moon, the millions of stars, the harmony and rhythm that issue from the world as from a lyre, the return of the seasons, the alternation of the months, the demarcation of day and night, the fruits of the earth, the vastness of the air, the ceaseless motion of the waves, the sound of the wind?

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Faith, Stars, Inspiration

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• It is no easy task to walk this earth and find peace. Inside of us, it would seem, something is at odds with the very rhythm of things and we are forever restless, dissatisfied, frustrated, and aching. We are so overcharged with desire that it is hard to come to simple rest. Desire is always stronger than satisfaction.

  Ronald Rolheiser

  Simple, Odds, Forever

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• Funny how things change when you got a liquor in ya:
  You're quicker with the tongue, givin' me rhythm now.
  Block the music and the people out to admire the love,
  The nerve of us...impervious to the entire club.
  And like marijuana shotguns, let's blow this joint,
  It's pointless to stay here, so let me anoint.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Block, Rap, Blow

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• They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.

  Kool Keith

  Baby, Rap, Simple

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• In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.

  William Christopher Handy

  Jobs, Men, Long Ago

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• I love Ruth Brown, not just her singing, but Ruth Brown has more girl power than anyone, because she fought hard against people who ripped her off and then helped other artists through the Rhythm and Blues Foundation.

  Ronnie Spector

  Girl, Artist, People

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• I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Thinking

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• That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation. Way before we were scratching pictures on caves or beating rhythms on hollow trees, we were perfecting the art of combining our breath and mind and muscles into fluid self-propulsion over wild terrain. And when our ancestors finally did make their first cave paintings, what were the first designs? A downward slash, lightning bolts through the bottom and middle-behold, the Running Man.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Art, Real

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• My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.

  Fiona Apple

  Fall, Heart, Moon

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• Maybe you're getting into the rhythm of sailing life," says James. He looks out at the waves that are rolling in to lap against the dock. "You know, the tides going in and then out, the wind blowing east and then west, the high of a perfect day out on the water, the low of a thunderstorm or a wind that won't go your way.

  Melissa Walker

  Inspirational, Funny, Wind Blowing

  Melissa Walker (2012). “Unbreak My Heart”, p.133, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Views, Trying

  "Hillary Clinton Interview; Donna Brazile and Bay Buchanan Discussion; John Snow Interview". "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", edition.cnn.com. May 26, 2005.

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• If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

  Tori Amos

  Moving, Hands, Sorrow

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• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Knives

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• The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.

  Brian Setzer

  Challenges, Knows

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• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  Jack White

  Broken, Hip Hop, Hips

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At first glance, the rhythm may be confused with gaiety, but when you look more closely at the mechanism of social life and the painful slavery of both men and machines, you see that it is nothing but a kind of typical, empty anguish that makes even crime and gangs forgivable means of escape.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Confused, Mean, Men

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

  Heinrich Heine

  Passion, People, Insulting

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• I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

  Ray Charles

  Music, People, Bullshit

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• There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.

  Tanith Lee

  Moon, Night, Fire

  Tanith Lee (2015). “Black Unicorn”, p.44, Hachette UK

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• I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Mexican, Singing, Signatures

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• Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

  Joe Pass

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

  Bonnie Raitt

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content.

  Helen Vendler

  Needs, Transformation, Wells

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• Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique.

  Jeb Bush

  Children, Blessing, Unique

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• I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

  Robert Caro

  Trying, Mood, Chapters

  "The Big Book" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2012.

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