Rhythm Quotes - Page 30

• I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

  Nas

  Writing, Past, Years

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for slavery.

  Pete Seeger

  Tangled, Together, World

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 3, 2008.

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• There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

  Patricia Garfield

  Waiting, World, Written

  Patricia Garfield (1995). “Creative Dreaming: Plan And Control Your Dreams To Develop Creativity Overcome Fears Solve Proble”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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• I know I can't dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.

  Hope Solo

  Home, Greatest Fear, Two

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• Negro music has touched America because it is the melody of the soul joined with the rhythm of the machine. It is in two part time; tears in the heart; movement of the legs, torso arms and head. The music of the era of construction; innovating. It floods the body and heart; it floods the USA and its floods the world. The jazz is more advanced than the architecture. If architecture were at the point reached by jazz, it would be an incredible spectacle.

  Le Corbusier

  Heart, Usa, Two

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• The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education

  Aristotle

  Errors, Feet, Community

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.250, Simon and Schuster

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• I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

  Edgar Winter

  Music Love, Harmony, I Love Music

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• The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music.

  Bill Medley

  Brother, Black, Rhythm And Blues

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• I really consider myself more of a rhythm guitarist than a soloist.

  Alex Lifeson

  Guitarist

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.

  Ariel Gore

  Skills, Challenges, Balance

  Ariel Gore (2010). “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness”, p.123, Macmillan

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• The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

  Herbert Read

  Discipline, Feelings, Progress

  "Collected Essays in Literary Criticism". Book by Herbert Read, 1938.

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• You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The Void is a living void ... pulsating in endless rhythms of creation and destruction. The great Void does not exist as Void, it embraces all Being/non-Being

  Frederick Franck

  Doe, Void, Creation

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• The first thing people look at with Four Seasons records is the vocals. But for me, the drum fills and rhythms are as much a part of it as anything. They're the base on which the harmonies were built.

  Bob Gaudio

  People, Four Seasons, Looks

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• There is a kinship between music and painting - with the same words used to describe both, as when a musical composition is said to have color and a painting to have rhythm.

  Alton Tobey

  Color, Musical, Painting

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• The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

  Leland Bell

  Artist, Reality, Roles

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• If you have fathered a child, if you have given birth, if sex is a source of healthy pleasure, thank your pelvis and your reproductive organs for allowing you to feel the creative rhythms of life.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Sex, Children, Rhythm Of Life

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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• Something that had the quality of a dimly lit stage set just before the curtains rise on opening night. There was a rhythm to it, a beckoning, and a bittersweet tear in time.

  Chris Abani

  Night, Quality, Tears

  Chris Abani (2014). “The Secret History of Las Vegas: A Novel”, p.124, Penguin

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• Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

  Robert Hunter

  Inspiration, Done, Lines

  "Song: "Lady With a Fan"". 1977.

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• Throughout, the work of Tyndale formed the foundation, and more than anyone else he established the rhythms and furnished much of the language which is familiar to us in the Authorised Version.

  Frederic G. Kenyon

  Foundation, Language, Familiar

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• We are totally opposed to abortion under any circumstances. We are also opposed to abortifacient drugs and chemicals like the pill and the IUD, and we are also opposed to all forms of birth control with the exception of natural family planning (the rhythm method)

  Judie Brown

  Abortion, Drug, Pills

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• Spiritual growth is like childbirth: you dilate, then you contract, you dilate, then you contract again. as painful as it all feels, it's the necessary rhythm for reaching the ultimate goal of total openness.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Goal, Growth

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.138, Ballantine Books

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• In a contest between new technology and old ways of life, it is the traditional rhythms that will hold. Traditional societies make up more than two-thirds of the world, the two-thirds that will not be going online to "save" time but will remain wedded to the knowledge that if the bus doesn't come that day, it will come someday. After all, there is nothing but time.

  Gloria Naylor

  Technology, Two, World

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• If we do not learn by heart, the heart does not feel the rhythms of poetry as echoes or variations of its own insistent beat.

  Brad Leithauser

  Heart, Echoes, Doe

  "Why We Should Memorize" by Brad Leithauser, www.newyorker.com. January 25, 2013.

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• A thousand times, when the train slowed or stopped, I thought of jumping off. I wanted to die in a ditch. I wanted to disappear. I wanted a different history and geography. In rhythm with the wheels I said I want I want I want I want I stayed on the train.

  Lewis Nordan

  Jumping, Different, Want

  Lewis Nordan (1992). “Music of the Swamp”, Algonquin Books

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