Rhythm Quotes - Page 22

• I usually start with a guitar riff or some little pattern of chords, and then I kind of go from there. Usually my lyrics are the last thing to go onto a song. For years and years I only ever did instrumental, so I'm still trying to get confidant with my lyrics and find the right balance. I'll generally get inspired from the music. I'll have a guitar line, and then I'll have a melody line, and I hook the lyrics up to fit that rhythm. So, my lyrics to tend be very rhythmic as well. They work with the music rather than the music works around them.

  Butterfly Boucher

  Song, Guitar, Years

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• When I'm in Los Angeles, it's hard to be creative. For me, New Orleans is one of those places that's like a muse. You can hear music on the streets. There's a certain character the city has that inspires you when you're needing to write lyrics and come up with melodies and come up with rhythm and blues. The city has a pulse and it's an inspiration for me.

  Chris Thomas King

  Inspiration, Writing, Character

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• Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to fight it. But when I fought it, the creative process was interrupted, so I ended up going with it. If I'm ever accused of being derivative of my heroes then I would take that as a compliment. I like staying close to the roots of my influences.

  Dale Watson

  Song, Hero, Writing

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• I'm trying to be expressive on my instrument and conduct as I'm improvising. So I'm conducting with the melodies and the rhythms that I play. And so it's a very organic way. It's a lot like Charles Mingus played, cuing people in from what you play and how you play it rather than standing in front of a band, conducting and pointing.

  Joe Lovano

  Play, People, Trying

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• If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Feelings, Enjoy

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• It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

  Matt Berninger

  Writing, Important, Stories

  Source: the-talks.com

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• There's a really rough and relatively consistent hierarchy of concerns. My musical interests come first and principally my fascination with how notes and rhythms interlock. Then comes the technical side like programming, instruments and designing instruments. Next is production and mixing and beyond that I start to care less.

  Squarepusher

  Design, Musical, Mixing

  Source: thequietus.com

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• I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.

  Zach Condon

  Long, Progression, Chords

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• The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.

  Kim Hyesoon

  Energy, Body, Wave

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When we travel for research our strategy is to simply move from kitchen to kitchen. It's truly a wonderful way to travel - food shopping, cooking and eating in one home for lunch and then another for dinner. The process of cooking takes us immediately into the rituals and rhythms of daily life and also places us firmly in the position of learners. We were meet with incredible generosity by all of the families we ate with.

  Jon Rubin

  Moving, Home, Shopping

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not. For me, writing has little to do with thinking. I don't want to control the narrative. I listen to the rhythm of the words and dialogue and try to give the characters the space in which to say and do what they want without intervening too much.

  Mary J. Miller

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and cutting something immediately if it doesn't feel true. I come from a family of musicians and - while I have no musical abilities of my own - I think I inherited a good ear.

  Mary J. Miller

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.

  Gary Cole

  Television, Want, Firsts

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Games, Details

  Source: espn.go.com

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• I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.

  Erin McKeown

  Song, Writing, Guitar

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.

  Adam Ross

  Real, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.

  Tove Lo

  Song, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.

  Terrence Howard

  Guitar

  Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing.

  Patrick Fabian

  Breathing, Swim, Mind

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my own thing. Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody.

  Jazmine Sullivan

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.

  Carl Gardner

  Mom, Dad, Years

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• Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.

  Mark Ronson

  Dream, Song, Guitar

  "The Story Behind Mark Ronson's Hit Song 'Uptown Funk'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 31, 2015.

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• The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.

  Reed Mullin

  Albums, Blind, Enjoyed

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• One of the things that happens when we're feeling more love and care is that we go into what's called "heart rhythm coherence," which you can actually measure and monitor on a computer screen. It's also possible to train yourself to go into heart rhythm coherence at will.

  Marci Shimoff

  Heart, Feelings, Care

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

  Juan Luis Guerra

  Bachata, Caribbean, Knows

  Source: hereandnow.wbur.org

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