Rhythm Quotes - Page 25

• I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Thinking, Influence

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Song, Writing, Voice

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We do inherently know that poetry is about the way we speak. It's about where we pause, where we drop our words in the middle of a sentence. It's about the rhythm and the cadence of the way we speak. It's about putting that down at the end of the day.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  The End Of The Day, Our Words, Cadence

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I pay a lot of attention to whitespace. I pay a lot of attention to the rhythm of words together.

  Jacqueline Woodson

  Together, Attention, Pay

  Source: therumpus.net

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  Drama is this incredibly vulnerable thing, but with comedy, you have to have a sense of rhythm and be very sensitive to the pace of things.

  Emma Stone

  Drama, Pace, Comedy

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm never going to dance again. Guilty feet have got no rhythm.

  George Michael

  Feet, Guilty

  "Song: "Careless Whisper" ("Careless Whisper")". 1984.

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• I'm terrified by young people who are doing what they think is film making. What they're really doing is taking that convulsed, fast rhythm of commercials. It's not film making.

  Sergio Leone

  Thinking, People, Film

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• [Miranda Hentoff] was teaching once at Lincoln Center, and the hall was full of other professionals - musicians, professors, teachers. And she was explaining how [Béla] Bartok composed his second piano concerto. And she explained how the music was interwoven with the rhythms and what he had in his mind. And I was just stunned. This is a kid who used to work - on a piano with a cracked keyboard.

  Nat Hentoff

  Teacher, Teaching, Kids

  Source: thedailyhatch.org

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• I'm sort of in this rhythm where we want to make the most of the time we have, but when it's done it will be time for it to be done.

  Susan Rice

  Done, Want

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If you ever saw All That Jazz [1979], Bob Fosse was kind of raised dancing in strip joints and the whole era of burlesque, and that form ran his visual aesthetic, the pacing and rhythm of what he did.

  David Copperfield

  Dancing, Bob, Eras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• When you're dealing with a constant rhythm, no matter how great your lyrics are, if you don't switch it up, people's heads are going to start bobbing. And they're going to stop listening to what you're saying, so consistently keep the ear fresh and keep the audience surprised.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  People, Listening, Ears

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I wasn't popular in school, I was Mexican, I was all these inappropriate things. I started playing the ukulele and taking it to school, and I realized people liked listening to it. I would play it to comfort myself at home, and I'd play rhythm and blues songs that had four chords. That's how it started.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Home, School

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• I know whites buy more records than blacks. So, I wanted to be able to make the most money that I could. Pop is for both whites and blacks, but if I just stuck to rhythm and blues, it's mostly for blacks. I didn't want to do that. So like I said, I wanted to get the most out of it that I could, so I thought that pop was the way to go.

  L.C. Cooke

  Rhythm And Blues, Records, Want

  Source: www.soultracks.com

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• I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Strong, Men, Rapper

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Book, Musical, Way

  "Bruce Springsteen: On Jersey, Masculinity And Wishing To Be His Stage Persona". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, radio.krcb.org. September 15, 2017.

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• As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.

  Wole Soyinka

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• It felt like it disrupted my rhythm in growing up. But I will say that I'm really grateful for [my mother's] own personal transition.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mother, Growing Up, Grateful

  Source: www.npr.org

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• My connection to music is so strong. I cling to it. I vibe out to it. I release stress to it. Music is really always close to me. It's really present in my work in terms of how I relate to characters is through rhythm and sound, even in their speech.

  Mahershala Ali

  Strong, Stress, Character

  "New spotlight, new baby for Oscars-bound Mahershala Ali". Associated Press Interview, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 17, 2017.

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• There's a rhythm to script [ in "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore"], as well, especially the pacing of it. But there definitely were times when I would say something and [ Macon Blair] would say, "I didn't think to deliver it like that" or, "I didn't think it had that meaning." And he'd say, "I like it. I think it's good." So he's open. He's not battering it into you.

  Melanie Lynskey

  Home, Thinking, World

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• I have seen videos of Sugar Ray Robinson and Willie Pep who did a million other things than just punch, to set up a perfect shot or to offset their opponents' rhythm. Boxing is incredibly complicated. It's not Rock'em Sock'em Robots.

  Chris Algieri

  Rocks, Perfect, Boxing

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• There are all kinds of things that can be done. You can change rhythms, you can change chords, you can change whole concepts. But it will only work, on a record or in a performance, if you can make the people buy it.

  Nina Simone

  People, Done, Records

  Source: www.musicismysanctuary.com

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• I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Writing, Trying, Care

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• There's the internal rhythm within a sequence, and then there's the rhythm between the sequences, and that's extremely important in constructing the narrative. For example, you don't put two big dramatic scenes right next to each other. But you can use the rhythm of the transition shots; they can often serve a double purpose.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Two, Important, Example

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of the issues of rhythm in film are found in the editing because it's very rare that any sequence is the sequence that is shot.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Editing, Issues, Film

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Unfortunately, I never played an instrument. I can't blame my parents, but I wish I had had music lessons. It's odd because I think I have a good sense of rhythm, as they say in some fields. But I don't know anything about music.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Thinking, Parent, Wish

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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