Rhythm Quotes - Page 28

• I just loved being around everybody. We just found a rhythm with each other that you want to get on everything you ever do in your life.

  William Fichtner

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• You need particular note or rhythm in the symphony to be that minor key, or that sharp key or major chord. In musical terms, I try to hit the right note. But not alter the score of the music, just emphasize the note correctly.

  Ben Kingsley

  Musical, Trying, Term

  Source: film.avclub.com

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• The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Memories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I did dance music for a short period of time but I felt like the fruit for me was in the outer dance world so I stopped doing overt techno and I think, in terms of rhythm, I enjoy things that feel like they're falling off, like they're just barely holding on.

  Tim Hecker

  Fall, Thinking, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more fully than other art forms, I think. It doesn't simply describe an experience, or a feeling, or a moment: it evokes it through, say, rhythm or tone or diction or metaphor. It creates a mood. A poem communicates before it is understood; it's not a fully paraphrasable form, which distinguishes it from other forms of writing.

  Nick Laird

  Art, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• For me, even in the most subtle and introspective story, it's all about tension: this is the thread that ties a reader to story, something in the rhythm and in the argument that hypnotizes and pushes us to read with great attention. As a reader, I love the storytellers who play with this, and as a writer it is something I always look for.

  Samanta Schweblin

  Attention, Argument, Introspective

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain films can help for that, too, in terms of understanding how multiple conversations at a table, or in a room, can take place and remain separate, and dissonant, and also gather themselves, accidentally, into a collective rhythm and an affect.

  Rachel Kushner

  Character, Understanding, Helping

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• We do have to learn poetry at school. Poetry is interesting to me, particularly Chinese poetry. It's like an ancient form of song. There's five sentences, seven sentences - they're very different from English poetry. Chinese poetry is much more rigorous. You can only use this many words, and they will form some kind of rhythm so people can actually sing it. To me, poetry is quite abstract but also quite beautiful.

  Jenova Chen

  Beautiful, Song, School

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Honestly, I can't understand English poetry. Because I am not an English speaker, when I read it I never know how to read it in the right rhythm.

  Jenova Chen

  Honestly, Poetry Is, Speakers

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Witing is essentially interior work, and many writers are interior personalities. Having a job forces you out of the world of your work, and into the one in which you get to observe people. Yes, you can imagine all this, but as a fiction writer, you can never observe enough the rhythms of how humans move through the world. A job demands that you structure your time much more carefully. You learn how to be resourceful, and that in turn provides a certain intensity of focus.

  Hanya Yanagihara

  Moving, People, Focus

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I see things in hardcopy that I miss if I only see words on screen. I do get sick of the words, but I like to see everything spread out because I get a sense of scale that is missing from screen. Going over each sentence many, many, many times gives me incredible intimacy with sentences, especially their rhythm. The rhythm and music of words matter a lot to me and it only takes one misplaced word to spoil the music.

  Myriam Gurba

  Giving, Sick, Missing

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• I still feel like if I can get a song to work with, say, a basic beat, a rhythm, some chord changes, and a melody, a vocal melody - if it works with that, then I feel it's written and there's something there. So I intentionally don't get involved with arranging stuff or fussing over the sounds and the edits and the beats too much, at least not in the beginning, because I feel like then you can fool yourself that you've got something there, when you might not.

  David Byrne

  Song, Fool, Get Involved

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• It's funny, I played a social gig once - we were playing music that was rhythm based, but it was going in some strange places. Some people came up to me afterward and said, "Can you play a tune that we'll all recognize?" I've carried that with me forever - why would you want a tune you could recognize? What's the point of that?

  Alexis Taylor

  People, Forever, Strange

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• Dark Horse movie might be blood, sweat, and tears for Todd Solondz, because things are so important to him and so specific. He has such a rhythm and a tone. So while he may have to work so hard to keep that intact, it allows the actors the freedom to just breathe. Because he's done all the heavy lifting. He really has. He has everything the way he needs it. And so we can just get there and be whatever he saw in the audition.

  Selma Blair

  Horse, Dark, Important

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• I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff.

  Scott Adams

  Creativity, Trying, Stuff

  "Scott Adams Keeps the Home Office Humming". Interview with Adam Bryant, www.nytimes.com. September 7, 1997.

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• My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

  Adele

  Two, Feet, Singing

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• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  Malin Akerman

  Men, Banging, Know How

  "Malin Akerman: White House Home Wrecker?" by A.J.Jacobs, www.esquire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Language, Translations

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• The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

  Christian Bale

  Views, Decision, Directors

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• Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.

  Johannes Brahms

  Real, Harmony, Used

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• When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer.

  Dave Brubeck

  Symphony, Want, Pieces

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• Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene.

  Nicolas Cage

  Guy, Understanding, Scene

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• I'm one of those people that feels that Americans that shouldn't do Shakespeare... The rhythms of the English language and the mannerisms of the English speech seems to work effortlessly with William Shakespeare, but when Americans do it, something seems stuck.

  Nicolas Cage

  People, Speech, Language

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• I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

  Nick Cave

  War, Fighting, Guitar

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• I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play.

  Kurt Cobain

  Guitar, Play, Wanted

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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