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• Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

  Plato

  Harmony, Results, Effects

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• Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Reality, Light

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.110, A&C Black

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• The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

  Edith Wharton

  Balance, Desire, Sound

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

  Wayne Muller

  Strong, Stars, War

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• Music is the basis of the whole creation. In reality the whole of creation is music, and what we call music is simply a miniature of the original music, which is creation itself, expressed in tone and rhythm.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Reality, Tone, Creation

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• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Music, Order, Divergent

  Yehudi Menuhin (1972). “Theme and Variations”, New York : Stein and Day

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• The giant white cube is now impeding rather than enhancing the rhythms of art. It preprograms a viewer's journey, shifts the emphasis from process to product, and lacks individuality and openness. It's not that art should be seen only in rutty bombed-out environments, but it should seem alive.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Journey, White

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• Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Music, Safe, Way

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• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Music, Opportunity

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

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• Progress has not followed a straight ascending line, but a spiral with rhythms of progress and retrogression, of evolution and dissolution.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Growth, Progress, Lines

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• Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter.

  Mary Oliver

  Powerful, Writing, Doe

  Mary Oliver (1994). “A Poetry Handbook”, p.42, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Pulse, Gestures, Applause

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• The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Running, Nature, Flower

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.38, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Art, Shining, Solo

  "It's good being Ricky Skaggs these days". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, articles.chicagotribune.com. September 26, 2012.

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• On the roads, I can see truth revealed whole without thought or reason. There I experience the sudden understanding that comes unasked, unbidden. I simply rest, rest within myself, rest within the pure rhythm of my running. And I wait.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Waiting, Understanding

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• Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.

  Stephen Spender

  Writing, Sometimes, Empty

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• Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

  Sugar Ray Robinson

  Sports, Moving, Heart

  "Sugar Ray" by Sugar Ray Robinson and Dave Anderson, (p. 75), March 22, 1994.

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• The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

  Bruce Lee

  Real, Thought Provoking, Doe

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Jeet Kune Do: Bruce Lee's Commentaries on the Martial Way”, p.376, Tuttle Publishing

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• The Dance - it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again; it is the eternal rising of the sun.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Order, Sun

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• Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

  George Crumb

  Elements, Nervous, Nervous System

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• Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Space, Flow, Infinity

  FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT (1953). “THE FUTURE OF ARCHITECTURE”

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• Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, Two, Timing

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• My heart is burning with love. All I can see is this flame. My heart is burning with passion, like waves on an ocean. I'm at home, wherever I am. And in the room of lovers, I can see with closed eyes the beauty that dances. Behind the veils, intoxicated with love, I too dance the rhythm of this moving world.

  Rumi

  Ocean, Moving, Heart

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• As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Life Changing, Different, Heritage

  "Exclusive Interview With Yo Yo Ma on the Spirituality of Music". Interview with Laurence Vittes, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 30, 2012.

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