Rhythm Quotes - Page 19

• What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

  Geezer Butler

  Guitar, Play, Want

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• Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

  Stephen Dunn

  Purpose, Answers, Links

  Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Insomnia, Patterns, Relief

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.

  Junot Diaz

  Book, Writing, Years

  Interview with Gina Frangello, therumpus.net. September 30, 2012.

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• The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

  Mick Taylor

  Rhythm And Blues, Stones, Inspired

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• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Music, Dance, Song

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• I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Relationship, Rocks, Use

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• A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Different, Potatoes

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• I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

  Johnny Griffin

  Play, Control Myself, Cooking

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• If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.

  Karla Kuskin

  Memories, Imagination, Feelings

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• Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Interpretation, Wells, Percent

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• So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Play, Firsts, Watches

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• Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Play, Violin, Sound

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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• Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Sound, Born, Syllables

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• For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

  Annea Lockwood

  Music, Sound, Momentum

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• Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

  Judith Orloff

  Lying, Energy, Deceit

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.37, Harmony

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• A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

  Al Di Meola

  Running, Player, Hands

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• Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Mean, Holiday, Men

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• Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

  John Frusciante

  Live Your Life, Cosmos, Able

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• Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

  Sam Hamill

  Government, Sound, Culture

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• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  Taylor Hanson

  Art, Fire, Rocks

  "Taylor Hanson Loves Tulsa". Taylor Hanson's love letter to Tulsa, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

  Colin Hay

  Musical, Style, Different

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• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  Kate Smith

  Voice, Perfect, Lucky

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• Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form

  Henry James

  Pulse, Details, Stories

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