Rhythm Quotes - Page 16

• You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Numbers, Poetry And Music, May

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not a jazz singer, blues singer or country singer. I'm a singer that can sing rhythm & blues, that can sing jazz, that can sing country. There's a big difference. In other words, I'm not a specialist.

  Ray Charles

  Country, Differences, Singers

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• Disco is funky when you take one record at a time. It's just that they narrowed it down to one beat to try to corner the market on a particular music. And when you do that with rhythm - talk about something that will get on your nerves. Try to make love with one stroke. Somebody will tell you to fax it in.

  George Clinton

  Making Love, Trying, Fax

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• The most inspiring drummer for me is Stewart Copeland from The Police. The Police are the first band I can remember really liking, and Copeland is a guy who was playing in sort of a rock band, or a rock-pop band, but he didn't want to do the traditional kind of rock drumbeat. He was doing all these kind of reggae rhythms, and the reggae style is almost an exact opposite of the rock mold of drumming.

  Panda Bear

  Rocks, Opposites, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We've always told stories through music and rhythm and movement, and what we know as western opera has only been around for a few hundred years and in different forms before that. There is great passion regardless of the fact that it's expensive and people who invest in it are giving money because they believe in it. They're not getting anything back other than satisfaction and enjoyment of hopefully many people having a human, deep, reflective and meditative experience that at its core is incredibly emotional.

  Jake Heggie

  Believe, Passion, Emotional

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• A work of art must make the rules: rules do not make a work of art...I tell people I am not a musician; I work with rhythms, frequencies and intensities...tunes are merely the gossips of music.

  Edgard Varese

  Art, Gossip, People

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• Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence... So many of us are not in our bodies, really at home and vibrantly present there. Nor are we in touch with the basic rhythms that constitute our bodily life. We live outside ourselves - in our heads, our memories, our longings - absentee landlords of our own estate. My way back into life was ecstatic dance. I reentered my body by learning to move my self, to dance my own dance from the inside out, not the outside in.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Memories, Moving, Home

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• Many an American jazz musician has been beguiled by the lush melodies and sumptuous rhythms of Brazilian music, but Peter Sprague has taken the romance a good deal further than most.

  Andrew S. Gilbert

  Taken, Romance, Musician

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• Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

  William Stafford

  Breathe

  William Stafford (1978). “Writing the Australian Crawl: Views on the Writer's Vocation”

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• Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Strong, Mountain, Break Out

  Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.43, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst upon the scene with an impact that was unprecedented and will probably never be equaled. His music and his personality, fusing the styles of white country and black rhythm and blues, permanently changed the face of American popular culture. His following was immense. And he was a symbol to people the world over of the vitality, rebelliousness and good humor of this country.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Unique, Years

  Statement by the President on the Death of Elvis Presley, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. August 17, 1977.

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• I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences, tones and scents into words and sentences in a readable or at least understandable script. This is difficult but not impossible.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Atmosphere, Scent, Scripts

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• I'm learning so much, I'm surprising myself everyday with the things that are happening, the rhythms. I'm very happy and very excited.

  Kate del Castillo

  Everyday, Excited, Very Happy

  Interview with Renee Ylizaliturri, www.indiewire.com. September 18, 2013.

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• Being Latina means I have culture I guess. We party together, cry together, and cook together. Or at least my family does as much as we can. We know where we're from and we have a certain kind of rhythm and understanding. Togetherness. As I get older it becomes more apparent that there is a community in this industry that is working together to rise up and fight against the misinterpretation of Hispanic and what it means to be a Latino-American nowadays.

  Alicia Sixtos

  Party, Mean, Fighting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.

  Ted Alexandro

  Home, Animal, Clubs

  "Laughing at something is a form of accepting it, or at least making peace with it". Interview with Chris Cobb, logger.believermag.com. September 19, 2014.

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• I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key.

  Lorrie Moore

  Thinking, Keys, People

  "'I would like to live in that year forever.'". Interview with Michael Hafford, logger.believermag.com. April 24, 2014.

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• The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

  Pope Francis

  Rhythm Of Life, Risk, Obsession

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• When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop.

  Jack Johnson

  Moving, Flow, Jellyfish

  Song: Bubble Toes, Album: Brushfire Fairytales

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• I always try to appreciate the most fleeting moments. The idea of the acrobats constantly tumbling and trying to adjust - I think that is what we do with aesthetics. It is a cyclical rhythm

  Phillip Lim

  Thinking, Ideas, Appreciate

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• Justin Broadrick has stated that the drum machine sound was heavily influenced by hip hop artists in the late 80s, particularly the beat on “Christbait Rising” which Broadrick was quoted as saying, “It was my attempt at copying the rhythm sample on 'Microphone Fiend' by Eric B & Rakim”.

  Justin Broadrick

  Artist, Hip Hop, Sound

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• Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

  Myron Uhlberg

  Ocean, Fall, Wind

  Myron Uhlberg (2009). “Hands of My Father: A Hearing Boy, His Deaf Parents, and the Language of Love”, p.29, Bantam

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• I grew up next to the ocean, on the coast, and would dance the salsa all day, so I just learned those rhythms and knew how to move my body when I was very little.

  Ana de la Reguera

  Ocean, Moving, Body

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit.

  Phill Niblock

  Bullshit, Harmony, Melody

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• Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.

  Frank Herbert

  Religious, Practice, Attention

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• ...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping and waking, mix and cohabit in an atemporal duration beyond clocks and calendars. The Aboriginal world began long ago when the Ancestors sang in Dreamtime the cosmic rhythms that give shape to the things we see, and it is the beginning right now, when a living Tiwi sings the Dream songs that continue, or are, the world.

  Huston Smith

  Dream, Song, Sleep

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