Rhythm Quotes - Page 8

• They use the simple back and forth, the same, old rhythm That a baby can pick up, and join, right with 'em. But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copacetic Using nursery terms, at least not poetic.

  Kool Keith

  Baby, Rap, Simple

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• My view is that, you know, life unfolds at its own rhythm. You know, I have never lived a life that I thought I could plan out. And I'm just trying to do the best I can every day. I find I have a lot to get done between the time I get up and the time I go to bed.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life, Views, Trying

  "Hillary Clinton Interview; Donna Brazile and Bay Buchanan Discussion; John Snow Interview". "Judy Woodruff's Inside Politics", edition.cnn.com. May 26, 2005.

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• For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Thinking, Long, Cinema

  "Isabelle Huppert (I)". Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny.

  Julianne Moore

  Lines, Comedy, Hard

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• The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none

  Holly Hunter

  Careers, Quiet, Silent

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• This recognition, in real life, of a rhythm of surfaces, lines, and values is for me the essence of photography; composition should be a constant of preoccupation, being a simultaneous coalition - an organic coordination of visual elements.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Real, Essence

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• In the South of long ago whenever a new man appeared for work in any of the laborers gangs, he would be asked if he could sing. If he could he got the job. The singing of these working men set the rhythm for the work.

  William Christopher Handy

  Jobs, Men, Long Ago

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• I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Growing Up, Inspiration, Thinking

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• My heart went cold and only hollow rhythms resounded from within, but then he rose, brilliant as the moon in full and sank in the burrows of my keep, and all my armor, falling down, in a pile at my feet.

  Fiona Apple

  Fall, Heart, Moon

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• If you can't create physical life, you find a life force. If that's in music, that's in music. I started to find this deep, primitive rhythm, and I started to move to it. And I held hands with sorrow, and I danced with her, and we giggled a bit.

  Tori Amos

  Moving, Hands, Sorrow

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• I don't ... like rhythm, assonance, all that stuff. You just go on your nerve. If someone's chasing you down the street with a knife you just run, you don't turn around and shout, 'Give it up! I was a track star for Mineola Prep.'

  Frank O'Hara

  Running, Stars, Knives

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• The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.

  Heinrich Heine

  Passion, People, Insulting

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• I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Mexican, Singing, Signatures

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• Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

  Joe Pass

  Funny, Inspiring, Music

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• There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

  Bonnie Raitt

  Music, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• Technological society leads to increasing numbers of people who cannot adapt to the inhuman rhythm of modern life with its emphasis on specialization. A class of people is growing up who are unexploitable because they are not worth employing even for the minimum wage. Technological progress makes whole categories of people useless without making it possible to support them with the wealth produced by the progress.

  Jacques Ellul

  Growing Up, Class, Numbers

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• I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.

  Robert Caro

  Trying, Mood, Chapters

  "The Big Book" by Chris Jones, www.esquire.com. April 12, 2012.

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• This song of the waters is audible to every ear, but there is other music in these hills, by no means audible to all. On a still night, when the campfire is low and the Pleiades have climbed over rimrocks, sit quietly and listen, and think hard of everything you have seen and tried to understand. Then you may hear it - a vast pulsing harmony - its score inscribed on a thousand hills, its notes the lives and deaths of plants and animals, its rhythms spanning the seconds and the centuries.

  Aldo Leopold

  Life, Song, Nature

  "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Chihuahua and Sonora: The Green Lagoons", p. 149, 1949.

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• Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Forgiveness, Pain, Feelings

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• I do believe that an intimacy with the world of crickets and their kind can be salutary - not for what they are likely to teach us about ourselves but because they remind us, of we will let them, that there are other voices, other rhythms, other strivings and fulfillments than our own.

  Howard Evans

  Believe, Garden, Voice

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• Unless you can feel when the song is done
  No other is sweet in its rhythm;
  Unless you can feel when left by one
  That all men else go with him.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Life, Song, Sweet

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “A Woman's Shortcomings”

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• In the etheric body are centered the forces animating man's physical vehicle, so disease is evidenced in the etheric before it manifests in the physical. The etheric, composed of finer, more attenuated substances than the physical, is corresponding amenable to vibratory influences. It is upon the former that harmony and rhythm have the most potent effect. Good music readjusts its molecular structure in accordance with the original divine plan, the archetype, and refines and accentuates it's vibratory currents. All forms of beauty and harmony increase this regenerating process.

  Corinne Heline

  Inspiration, Men, Substance

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• We've got to be long distance runners on the spiritual path. We want to run as fast as we can, but at the same time realize that if God isn't at the end of that 100 yards, we don't fall flat of exhaustion. We've got to have whatever rhythm it takes to be able to go on for incarnations until we find that state of perfection we've been seeking.

  Goswami Kriyananda

  Happiness, Running, Spiritual

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• Once the game begins, I play to that song in my head. I run to rhythm, and that allows my mind to be free.

  Marshall Faulk

  Football, Running, Song

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• Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.

  Elmore Leonard

  Writing, Verbs, Use

  "Elmore Leonard's rules for writer" by Elmore Leonard, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2010.

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