Rhythm Quotes - Page 14

• A lot of my work is like picking potatoes; you have to get into the rhythm of it. It is different than patience. It is not thinking. It is working with the rhythm.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Thinking, Different, Potatoes

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• I like to play fast. I get excited, and I have to sort of control myself, restrain myself. But when the rhythm section gets cooking, I want to explode.

  Johnny Griffin

  Play, Control Myself, Cooking

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• If there would be a recipe for a poem, these would be the ingredients: word sounds, rhythm, description, feeling, memory, rhyme, and imagination. They can be put together a thousand different ways, a thousand, thousand...more.

  Karla Kuskin

  Memories, Imagination, Feelings

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• Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Interpretation, Wells, Percent

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• So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Play, Firsts, Watches

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• Of course the most difficult thing on the violin is always intonation. The second one is rhythm. If you play in tune, in time with a good sound that's already high level. Those three are the main things.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Play, Violin, Sound

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• The feel of a canoe gunnel at the thigh, the splash of flying spray in the face, the rhythm of the snowshoe trail, the beckoning of far-off hills and valleys, the majesty of the tempest, the calm and silent presence of the trees that seem to muse and ponder in their silence; the trust and confidence of small living creatures, the company of simple men; these have been my inspiration and my guide. Without them I am nothing.

  Grey Owl

  Inspiration, Men, Simple

  Grey Owl (2010). “Pilgrims of the Wild”, p.28, Dundurn

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• Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

  Jean-Philippe Rameau

  Sound, Born, Syllables

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• For me, every sound has its own minute form - is composed of small flashing rhythms, shifting tones, has momentum, comes, vanishes, lives out its own structure.

  Annea Lockwood

  Music, Sound, Momentum

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• Energy never lies. If you work at your right rhythm, you will be more productive trust me.

  Judith Orloff

  Lying, Energy, Deceit

  Judith Orloff (2004). “Positive Energy: 10 Extraordinary Prescriptions for Transforming Fatigue, Stress, and Fear into Vibrance, Strength, and Love”, p.37, Harmony

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• A good way to work on alternate picking is to choose three or four notes, and work on those. Too often, players who are trying to improve their right hand dexterity get hung up by playing too many notes with the left hand.I hear a lot of players running whole scales from the sixth string to the first , and playing them really sloppy.Keeping it very basic-and using only a few notes-and playing slowly with perfect rhythm is a task in itself.

  Al Di Meola

  Running, Player, Hands

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• Humanity has always conquered the flux of natural time by means of a rhythm between active and passive time-spans. To reconquer his holidays, to establish a new and better time schedule for life, has been the great endeavour of man ever since the days of Noah.

  Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

  Mean, Holiday, Men

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• Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

  John Frusciante

  Live Your Life, Cosmos, Able

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• Poetry transcends the nation-state. Poetry transcends government. It brings the traditional concept of power to its knees. I have always believed poetry to be an eternal conversation in which the ancient poets remain contemporary, a conversation inviting us into other languages and cultures even as poetry transcends language and culture, returning us again and again to primal rhythms and sounds.

  Sam Hamill

  Government, Sound, Culture

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• As I discovered music, especially Rock 'n Roll, new territory was opened to me. I was lured by the unbridled rhythm of this art form. It was like gasoline on the fire of my youthful spirit.

  Taylor Hanson

  Art, Fire, Rocks

  "Taylor Hanson Loves Tulsa". Taylor Hanson's love letter to Tulsa, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2012.

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• I feel pretty comfortable in a lot of different musical styles. I like rhythm, and I like melody and so forth.

  Colin Hay

  Musical, Style, Different

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• I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.

  Kate Smith

  Voice, Perfect, Lucky

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• I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

  Stanley Crouch

  Fall, Mean, Elements

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• I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.

  Lee Konitz

  Player, Should Have, Horny

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• Speech, tennis, music, skiing, manners, love- you try them waking and perhaps balk at the jump, and then you're over. You've caught the rhythm of them once and for all, in your sleep at night. The city, of course, can wreck it. So much insomnia. So many rhythms collide. The salesgirl, the landlord, the guests, the bystanders, sixteen varieties of social circumstance in a day. Everyone has the power to call your whole life into question here. Too many people have access to your state of mind. Some people are indifferent to dislike, even relish it. Hardly anyone I know.

  Renata Adler

  Love You, Sleep, Insomnia

  Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.7, New York Review of Books

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• If you have feelings about reading, you feel the rhythm of prose or of a poem like music. It awakens something in your soul and then of course you study, read, you grow up and you begin to understand the message and that is the first step towards understanding life.

  Maria Kodama

  Growing Up, Reading, Understanding

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• To tell the truth, in Pacific 231 I was on the trail of a very abstract and quite ideal concept, by giving the impression of a mathematical acceleration of rhythm, while the movement itself slowed .  I first called this piece Mouvement symphonique. On reflection I found that a bit colorless. Suddenly, a rather romantic image crossed my mind, and when the work was finished, I wrote the title Pacific 231, which indicates a locomotive for heavy loads and high speeds (a type unfortunately disappeared, alas, and sacrificed to electric traction).

  Arthur Honegger

  Reflection, Giving, Mind

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• You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.

  Robyn

  Book, Skills, Use

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• Certain songs by hearing the rhythm, it tells you that is either a love song or you might be heartbroken or the songs give you the vibes and you just know that certain songs are militant that you have to write.

  Dennis Brown

  Heartbroken, Song, Hurt

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• The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.

  Theodor Adorno

  Heritage, Body, Way

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