Cadence Quotes - Page 4

• I probably would've kept slogging on that same chord change, because there's a tendency to have that happen. You get into the cadence in your mind, and it's hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

  Aimee Mann

  Interesting, Mind, Needs

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• I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.

  Yannis Philippakis

  Religious, Singing, Zealous

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• To me it's just the knock, man. It's the knock and the groove of the beat. When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural. You know what I'm saying? I feel like people can feel when something is natural.

  Pusha T

  Song, Men, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I feel that as a writer and as a performer too. I never really thought about backstory for characters. It was much more of a musical approach: You learn a melody, and then you sing it, I suppose, or you find a rhythm or a cadence that works for the material. And then it's sort of about hitting that note correctly and finding those beats.

  Brady Corbet

  Character, Musical, Hitting

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

  Stephen King

  Book, Thinking, Numbers

  "Stephen King wants to reach out and grab you — with his writing". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2016.

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• Fine declamation does not consist in flowery periods, delicate allusions of musical cadences, but in a plain, open, loose style, where the periods are long and obvious, where the same thought is often exhibited in several points of view.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Views, Long, Musical

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.281

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  Michael Chang

  Flow, Encounters, Use

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• Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Perfect, Progress, Titles

  "Nouveau système de musique théorique" by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Paris, (p. 59), 1726.

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• A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.

  Roger Zelazny

  Song, Book, Fire

  Roger Zelazny (1989). “Frost and Fire”, William Morrow

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• When I start a song, it's the first thought. It's the first thought and the first cadence, because that's the most natural.

  Pusha T

  Song, Firsts, Natural

  "Pusha T On Fronting, Responsibility And Kanye". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. October 11, 2013.

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• Kamby Bolongo Mean River is an original and fearless fiction. It bears genetic traces of Beckett and Stein, but Robert Lopez's powerful cadences and bleak, joyful wit are all his own.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Powerful, Mean, Rivers

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• Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.

  William Hazlitt

  Writing, Simplicity, Style

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1270, Delphi Classics

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• A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.

  Linda Sunshine

  Fall, Sarcasm, Voice

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• Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

  Juan Gabriel

  Art, Color, Grace

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• I come from the belief that all good films find their time whether it's on opening week or sometime later. That's certainly true with some of my favourite films that might relate to this [The Assassination of Jesse James] film in terms of cadence like Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid, or McCabe & Mrs Miller or Days of Heaven. I found them 10 to 20 years after they were made.

  Brad Pitt

  Kids, Years, Heaven

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid, and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalises itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and reprojected from the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

  James Joyce

  God, Art, Imagination

  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916).

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• Soldier, there is a war between the mind
  And sky, between thought and day and night. It is
  For that the poet is always in the sun,
  Patches the moon together in his room
  To his Virgilian cadences, up down,
  Up down. It is a war that never ends.

  Wallace Stevens

  War, Moon, Night

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play”, p.302, Vintage

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• If only the Geologists would let me alone, I could do very well, but those dreadful Hammers! I hear the clink of them at the end of every cadence of the Bible verses.

  John Ruskin

  Hammers, Bible Verse, Ends

  Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, George Allan Cate (1982). “The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin”, p.14, Stanford University Press

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• It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Art, Joy

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• And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Symphony, Intellectual, Musical

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1958). “Selected Writings (Values in a Universe of Chance)”, p.121, Courier Corporation

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• The music does a lot for me. I'm one of those types of artists who the music really inspires my delivery, my cadence, and what I hear.

  LeCrae

  Artist, Inspire, Doe

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Thinking, Sound, Return

  "A Conversation with Pattiann Rogers". Interview with Carolyn Perry, Wayne Zade, poems.com. 2009.

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• I'm very conscious of the fact that every line should have a cadence to it. It should contribute to the progress of the poem. And that the ending of the line is a way of turning the reader's attention back into the interior of the poem.

  Billy Collins

  Should Have, Progress, Attention

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a beat. There's a music to the language that's very important to me.

  T.C. Boyle

  Wife, Important, Language

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

  Dawn Angelique

  Writing, Ideas, Appreciate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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