Rhythm Quotes - Page 13

• First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

  Robert Delaunay

  Believe, Color, Here And There

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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’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.

  Federico Fellini

  Art, Perspective, Cinema

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has that fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation...Writing with real voice has the power to make you pay attention and understand --the words go deep.

  Peter Elbow

  Real, Writing, Voice

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• I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

  Noel Gallagher

  Guitar, Play, People

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• I think [Hollywood] has achieved everything they’ve always dreamed of. The audience now seems to be very dumb. They pay money to watch the same film. Now, you could argue, that's because it makes them feel comfortable. When they go to a movie now, it's almost like hearing a pop song. You know the rhythms, you know when the downbeat is going to come, you know when the explosion is going to come… And so as life becomes more complex, as the economy is in trouble, people cling to what makes them comfortable, so they go again and again to see the same movie.

  Terry Gilliam

  Song, People, Watches

  "Terry Gilliam Talks The 'Simplistic' Films Of Steven Spielberg, Dumbing Down Of Audiences, ‘Don Quixote’ Start Date & More" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. January 07, 2014.

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• Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

  Virginia Woolf

  Simple, Style, Use

  Virginia Woolf (1975). “The letters of Virginia Woolf”

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• To rob the Negro of his reputation of thinking through a problem in his own fashion is about the same as trying to pretend that he doesn't have a natural instinct for rhythm and for singing and dancing.

  Jesse Helms

  Fashion, Thinking, Dancing

  "Ideas & Trends; The Quotations of Chairman Helms: Race, God, AIDS and More" by Kevin Sack, www.nytimes.com. August 26, 2001.

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• You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church

  Art Blakey

  Music, Rocks, Church

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• It's the hillbilly rock, beat it with a drum. Playin' them guitars like shootin from a gun. Keepin' up the rhythm, steady as a clock. Doin' a little thing called the hillbilly rock.

  Marty Stuart

  Gun, Rocks, Guitar

  Song: Hillbilly Rock, Album: Hillbilly Rock

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• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  Kate Chopin

  Crush, Hands, Gnarly

  Kate Chopin (2016). “The Awakening”, p.187, Xist Publishing

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• When I showed ‘Black and the Red III’ in Malmö, Sweden, it was a continuum - a band - all around the galleryseeing this huge space in the gallery in Malmö, I just took a deep breath and I put the paper around in a single band. Then I continued along, printing on the wall like a trompe l’oeil to reiterate the images in the work printed on paper that I had push-pinned to the wall. I literally took the rhythm and the images from ‘Black and the Red III’ and continued that on the wall.

  Nancy Spero

  Wall, Space, Black

  "Art as a Continuum". Art21 Interview, art21.org.

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• Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

  Michael Cunningham

  Should Have, Fiction, Delight

  "Found in Translation". Article by Michael Cunningham, www.nytimes.com. October 2, 2010.

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• The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die.

  Sun Ra

  Moving, Sound, Earth

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• I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms

  Stephen Stills

  Latin, School, Years

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• It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

  Roger Waters

  Home, Mad, Track

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• As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love

  Ruth St. Denis

  Understanding, And Love, Denial

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• People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.

  Edward T. Hall

  Time, Wall, People

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• These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt.

  Andrew Hill

  Music, Magic Moments, People

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• What I used to play was rhythm guitar before I saw Jack Bruce. I said, That's what I want to do in life. He was definitely the main influence

  Geezer Butler

  Guitar, Play, Want

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• Better to be furious at one thing, become radiant with purpose. Better to love links and rhythms than all-embracing answers.

  Stephen Dunn

  Purpose, Answers, Links

  Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.

  William Styron

  Insomnia, Patterns, Relief

  William Styron (2010). “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues

  Mick Taylor

  Rhythm And Blues, Stones, Inspired

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• Rock ’n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids – they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners.

  Alan Freed

  Music, Dance, Song

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• I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Relationship, Rocks, Use

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