Rhythm Quotes - Page 35

• The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

  Danny Barker

  New Orleans, Play, Two

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• My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  "Dolly Parton: Gee, She's Really Nice". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. December 7, 1980.

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• Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

  Jaime Pressly

  Determination, Kind, Teach

  "What I've Learned: Jaime Pressly" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Song, Regret, Thinking

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• You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, Believe, Swimming

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• When it comes to certain kind of rhythm things, particularly like shaker or tambourine tracks. I like the way I can really lock up with my own Hi Hat or Ride Cymbal beat. So a lot of times in recording I'll be asked -- or even volunteer -- to put a shaker or tambourine track on. Just to give it something extra. And it always works great. I hate it when I'm in the studio and I don't have any shakers or tambourines with me. I've been on a few dates when we didn't have anything and tried to improvise shakers out of some uncooked rice in soda cans. It sounded horrible.

  Peter Erskine

  Hate, Volunteer, Track

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• My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. I was all of 16 when I had my first guitar lesson with Joe. But I never focused on being a bebop player. I loved the harmony, rhythm and phrasing, but I wanted to apply them to my own concept and sound.

  Larry Carlton

  Art, First Love, Player

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• That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying.

  Eduard Hanslick

  Hands, Feet, Effort

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• Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt.

  Seamus Heaney

  Smile, Miles

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Field Work: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan

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• I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

  Frank Loesser

  Together, Sound, Shapes

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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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• I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

  Charles Darwin

  Music, Sex, Opposites

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Darwin (Illustrated)”, p.7535, Delphi Classics

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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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• It is therefore necessary to prepare the imminent and inevitable identification of man with the motor, facilitating and perfecting an incessant exchange of intuition, rhythm, instinct and metallic discipline, quite utterly unknown to the majority of humanity and only divined by the most lucid mind.

  Filippo Tommaso Marinetti

  Men, Discipline, Humanity

  "International Futurism in Arts and Literature" by Günter Berghaus, (p. 318), 2000.

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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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• The linear, mechanistic view of the world which pervades orthodox economics is simply not capable of capturing the richness and complexity of the rhythms and fluctuations of developed economies.

  Paul Ormerod

  Views, World, Economics

  "The Death of Economics". Book by Paul Ormerod, 1994.

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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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