Rhythm Quotes - Page 38

• I was born by the sea, and I have noticed that all the great events of my life have taken place by the sea. My first idea of movement, of the dance, certainly came from the rhythm of the waves.

  Isadora Duncan

  Ocean, Taken, Sea

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• I've always felt that a really good joke, a really good one-liner, is a really good line of poetry. It's imagistic, it's compact, there is a rhythm to it.

  Kate Clinton

  Lines, Comedy, One Liner

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• But the soul of Africa, its integrity, the slow inexorable pulse of its life, is its own and of such singular rhythm that no outsider, unless steeped from childhood in its endless, even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.

  Beryl Markham

  War, Integrity, Knowing Nothing

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.19, Open Road Media

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• There are people who have a penchant for cities-more than that, a talent for them, a gift of sensing them, of feeling their rhythm and pulsebeats, as others have a highly developed music sense, or color reaction. It is a thing that cannot be acquired.

  Edna Ferber

  Color, Cities, People

  Edna Ferber (1917). “Fanny Herself”, p.170, Library of Alexandria

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• Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.

  Joan Larkin

  Roots, Sound, Different

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.

  Joan Larkin

  Trying, Firsts, Sound

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

  Armando Iannucci

  Writing, Thinking, Political

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.

  Jon Foreman

  Ocean, Breathing, Surfing

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• Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Body, Language, Punctuation

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• Those who have to face persistent political persecution become highly politicized. Our lives take on a rhythm different from those who, on waking up in the morning, do not need to wonder who might have been arrested during the night and what further acts of blatant injustice might be committed against our people later during the day. Our antennae become highly sensitive to vibrations barely noticed by those whose everyday existence is removed from political struggle.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Morning, Struggle, Night

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• Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  People, Waiting, Special

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.

  Holly Near

  Song, Voice, Feet

  Holly Near, Derk Richardson (1990). “Fire in the Rain- Singer in the Storm: An Autobiography”, William Morrow & Company

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• The conversation of two people remembering, if the memory is enjoyable to both, rocks on like music or lovemaking. There is a rhythm and a predictability to it that each anticipates and relishes.

  Jessamyn West

  Memories, Rocks, Two

  Jessamyn West (1984). “The state of Stony Lonesome”, Harcourt

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• There's something in the rhythm and roll of it that is connected to the way Hitchcock thinks and moves. Then there is everything he ingested - the cigar smoking and drinking that's imprinted on his voice.

  Toby Jones

  Drinking, Moving, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I dont like to waste notes, not even one. I like to put the right note in the right place, and my influences have always been those kinds of players. Keith Richards comes to mind, and I really like Nils Lofgrens soloing, because hes so melodic. I love John Lennons rhythm playing, and George Harrison was an incredible guitarist.

  Johnny Marr

  Player, Mind, Keith

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• Through song you learn, and I think school systems need to learn that. Through the rhythm you can learn better, through melody, with something you need to learn, it's a vehicle for it.

  Steven Tyler

  Song, School, Thinking

  "Q&A With Aerosmith: Steven Tyler 'Itching' to Make Solo Album". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.rollingstone.com. June 20, 2013.

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• 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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• The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Travel, Cities, Two

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• You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm.

  Seth

  Want Something, Pebbles, Forget

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• White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

  Joni Mitchell

  Vocabulary, White, Spirit

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