Rhythm Quotes - Page 24

• I make very involved drawings, even little structures, and try using design to figure out the rhythm of a plot. If there are several narrators then a clue has to pop up in the first line. There have to be certain grammatical clues, or distinctive names.

  Louise Erdrich

  Drawing, Names, Design

  "Louise Erdrich's War of The Roses". Interview with Jeff Vasishta, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 9, 2016.

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• It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.

  Marisa Tomei

  Ears, Timing, Comic

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• On a very technical level, I am a geek who is interested in the intricacy of rhythm playing, so I like comparing and working out its details.

  Justin Adams

  Work Out, Details, Levels

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The music I really like to get off on is the old rhythm 'n' blues and rock 'n' roll stuff... that's what I really dig. And I also dig to sing ballads as well. And I also dig writing my own songs. I was just trying to find a way of integrating the whole thing, taking a look at the total picture.

  Van Morrison

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

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• I wanted to remember the original energy; strip away all the glamour and limousines and tons of drugs. I wanted to get back to the revolutionary ideas, merging poetry and rhythm and rock and roll.

  Patti Smith

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Ideas

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

  Erin McKeown

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I did ask Larry David, "How did I get so lucky? How am I here Seinfeld?" He just said, 'Well, when you say your name over and over it just has a really strong rhythm: "Marisa Tomei. Marisa Tomei."

  Marisa Tomei

  Strong, Names, Lucky

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• Let's say [Warren Beatty] wants you to speak louder in a scene. He won't stop playing the role and say to you as a director, "Will you speak louder on the next take?" He'll say it as Howard Hughes: "I can't totally hear you. Why don't you speak up a little bit?" To kind of keep this rhythm going.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Littles, Next, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments.

  Glenn Close

  Writing, Mind, Kind

  "Glenn Close Embraces Damages". Interview with Evan Jacobs, October 24, 2007.

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• When you're doing those operation scenes, you not only have to be on top of the dialogue and the rhythm of the dialogue and what's happening dramatically, but you've got to technically get the rhythm right, so that everything is fitting with the dialogue at the right time. And you're performing the operation to the audience that's watching it. Thackery has to present it, as well. In some ways, that's the most challenging.

  Clive Owen

  Challenges, Way, Scene

  Source: collider.com

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• One of the reasons there may be a trend toward moving out of the cities, again, it may be conscious or it may be unconscious, but it is a desire to connect more with nature. And with the natural rhythms. We [people] need that! We've been missing it.

  Shakti Gawain

  Moving, Cities, People

  "An interview with Shakti Gawain about transformation locally and globally". Lotus Guide interview, lotusguide.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.

  Shelby Harris

  Teenager, Interesting, Patient

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.

  James Frey

  Writing, Voice, Trying

  Interview with Toby Litt, tobylitt.wordpress.com. August 1, 2008.

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• What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section.

  Jim Dickinson

  Special, Gone, Records

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• Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

  Patience Strong

  Garden, Rhythm Of Life, Triumph

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• The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the [God's] Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

  Michael Horton

  Christian, Godly, Maturity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• I'd like to have James Brown as my singer. I already have the best drummer, Tommy Clufetos. I've jammed a bunch with John Entwistle, and it was like a musical orgy. That guy is a living, breathing, grunting rhythm. For horns, let's go with the Stax/Volt guys, and I'm going to have Steve Cropper on standby just in case I want a rhythm guitarist.

  Ted Nugent

  Breathing, Guy, Musical

  "Ted Nugent & Henry Rollins: American Flag/Black Flag". Elmore Magazine Interview, www.elmoremagazine.com. November 3, 2013.

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• Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!

  Ted Nugent

  Father, Real, Water

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• If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Feelings, Enjoy

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• I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

  Zach Condon

  Long, Progression, Chords

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• Interspirituality is the world music of religion; borrowing, fusing, blending and bouncing rhythms and riffs off one another not to create a homogenized spirituality, but to birth a radical new sound embedded in the ancient and timeless silence. This doesn't impact or deepen my life-it is my life.

  Rami M. Shapiro

  Impact, Silence, Sound

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• Rhythm is form cut into time.

  Ezra Pound

  Cutting, Form

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.198, New Directions Publishing

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• We have no physical model of this endless rhythm of individuation and involvement, we do have its image in the world of art, most purely in dance.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Art, World, Endless

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• One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

  Jacques Barzun

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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