Rhythm Quotes - Page 29

• I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

  Leonard Cohen

  Firsts, Structure, Touched

  "Leonard Cohen: A secular saint". Interview with Brian Boyd, www.irishtimes.com. Jan 28, 2012.

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• Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self.

  Paula Cole

  Plato, Thinking, Self

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• I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things.

  Penelope Cruz

  New York, Crazy, Years

  Interview With Marion Cotillard, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 28, 2009.

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• There's a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that's very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Thinking, Important, Deciding What To Do

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• I can play rhythm guitar. I know how to hold a guitar and strum it.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Guitar, Play, Know How

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• There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.

  Larry David

  Might, Way, Certain

  "When Ricky met Larry" by Giles Smith, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 11, 2005.

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• I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Fun, Character, Pages

  "Zooey Deschanel and Liz Meriwether NEW GIRL Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2012.

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• It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

  Isadora Duncan

  Dance, Believe, America

  Isadora Duncan (1972). “My Life”, Liveright Publishing Corporation

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• I do miss the rhythms of comedy. And I've never been able to perform very well without an audience. The sitcoms I've done had them. It was like doing a little play.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Play, Missing, Littles

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• Entering a novel is like going on a climb in the mountains: You have to learn the rhythms of respiration - acquire the pace. Otherwise you stop right away.

  Umberto Eco

  Mountain, Pace, Entering

  Umberto Eco (2014). “The Name of the Rose”, p.559, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As an actor, you are in a unique position because you’re not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Writing, Unique, Actors

  "Jesse Eisenberg On ‘Why Stop Now,’ Writing Plays & Jeremy Lin". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

  Brian Eno

  Sound, Complicated, Rich

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• My feeling is that poetry will wither on the vine if you don't regularly come back to the simplest fundamentals of the poem: rhythm, rhyme, simple subjects - love, death, war.

  James Fenton

  War, Simple, Feelings

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• I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Way, Walks, Ifs

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• What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

  Philip Glass

  Use, Revelations, Structure

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• Although I'm a lead guitarist, I'd say that a good 95 percent of my time onstage is spent playing rhythm.

  Kirk Hammett

  My Time, Percent, Guitarist

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• When you're first starting out, there's always the temptation to hide behind distortion because it lets you get away with murder. But, when it comes to rhythm work, you've gotta back off that gain control a bit, especially if you're playing with another guitarist.

  Kirk Hammett

  Temptation, Starting Out, Gains

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• I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

  Ken Hensley

  Writing, Firsts, Melody

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• Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

  Mahalia Jackson

  Experts, Jazz, Gospel Music

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• People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Dance, Athlete

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• The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Love, Life, Truth

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• I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.

  Charles Kuralt

  Falling In Love, Writing, Trying

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• I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Speech, Language, Songwriters

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• If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz.

  Ray Manzarek

  Men, Rocks, Black

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• Hip hop scholarship must strive to reflect the form it interrogates, offering the same features as the best hip hop: seductive rhythms, throbbing beats, intelligent lyrics, soulful samples, and a sense of joy that is never exhausted in one sitting.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Intelligent, Offering, Seductive

  Michael Eric Dyson (2010). “Know What I Mean?: Reflections on Hip Hop”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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