Rhythm Quotes - Page 38

• I know all the Latin-American rhythms quite well, but I don't play them exactly like they do in their own country - I add my personal touch.

  Dizzy Gillespie

  Country, Latin, Play

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• In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Events, Details

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• My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me.

  Frances Stark

  Voice, Way, Storytelling

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've always identified myself as a drummer first and foremost - I'm pretty obsessed with rhythm.

  Glenn Kotche

  Firsts, Drummer, Obsessed

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing.

  Glenn Kotche

  Player, Rocks, Typical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

  Eric Kripke

  Writing, Character, Two

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• In conducting interviews, my fascination is not only with the content of the conversation, but also the overall delivery of spoken language - so much of one's personality and story is embedded within their speech, their rhythms, the structure of their thoughts, their use of particular diction or dialect.

  Steve Cosson

  Personality, Fascination, Diction

  "The Civilians’ Museum as Musical". Interview with Rachel Egan, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 12, 2014.

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• Sometimes when I'm writing I'll play Cole Porter, just because the rhythms and the lyrics are so perfect that it's like having a smart partner in the room. I have a huge collection of music that I listen to when I'm writing, and I also prepare a lot of music before I start directing. I put it all onto an iPod that I have with me on the set. It's helpful to the actors, because for an emotional scene, I'll play it and say, this is how it feels, to keep us in the zone.

  Nancy Meyers

  Smart, Writing, Emotional

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• While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Eye, Air

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• I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless.

  Stephen Karam

  Writing, Thinking, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I bowl my best when I am fittest and the best way to get fit is to bowl. That's how you get your rhythm. You cannot really find a rhythm by bowling in the nets.

  Brett Lee

  Way, Bowling, Fit

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• Of course, it's not the technique that makes the music; it's the sensitivity of the musician and his ability to be able to fuse his life with the rhythm of the times. This is the essence of music.

  Herbie Hancock

  Essence, Technique, Musician

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• I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.

  David Mamet

  Piano, Typewriters, Sound

  "Mamet Talk" by Lillian Ross, www.newyorker.com. May 19, 2008.

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• Show me your sun. The rhythm of your eyes. Love is not as certain as this hypnotic time.

  Gustavo Cerati

  Eye, Love Is, Sun

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• I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.

  Chelsea Handler

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• Is as if the music is another character or as if it was a part of this great opera. I also through about this project as a structure or as a sculpture made out of colors, rhythm, characters, and brush strokes, but with every single one of these always supporting one another.

  Alex Abreu

  Character, Color, Sculpture

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I know Roomba is a vacuum... But, whenever it's mentioned, my instinct is to be excited about a new fun party game involving rhythm and friends!

  Shannon Woodward

  Fun, Party, Games

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• The New Orleans bands, you see, didn't play with a flat sound. They'd shade the music. After the band had played with the two or three horns blowing, they'd let the rhythm have it.

  Danny Barker

  New Orleans, Play, Two

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• My nails are my rhythm section when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.

  Dolly Parton

  Song, Writing, Cutting

  "Dolly Parton: Gee, She's Really Nice". Interview with Roger Ebert, www.rogerebert.com. December 7, 1980.

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• Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it.

  Jaime Pressly

  Determination, Kind, Teach

  "What I've Learned: Jaime Pressly" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2007.

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• I like to find music that shares a rhythm with the sentences I'm working on. And though I'll probably regret saying this, I think some songs actually don't sound too bad when they're played through lousy speakers.

  Rosecrans Baldwin

  Song, Regret, Thinking

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• You relax within the verse. You realize the structure of the verse and relax into it. It's like swimming. Or riding a bike. You can't make it sound real if you are thinking it through as you go. You can't think through Shakespeare, you have to speak it. And listen to the rhythm of it and then it takes you over. And to make it sound real you speak as if you believe it. Don't act it. Just be it.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Real, Believe, Swimming

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• When it comes to certain kind of rhythm things, particularly like shaker or tambourine tracks. I like the way I can really lock up with my own Hi Hat or Ride Cymbal beat. So a lot of times in recording I'll be asked -- or even volunteer -- to put a shaker or tambourine track on. Just to give it something extra. And it always works great. I hate it when I'm in the studio and I don't have any shakers or tambourines with me. I've been on a few dates when we didn't have anything and tried to improvise shakers out of some uncooked rice in soda cans. It sounded horrible.

  Peter Erskine

  Hate, Volunteer, Track

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• My first love in music was jazz, but I like it all," "I reacted emotionally to Art Blakey and, of course, to Joe Pass and Wes Montgomery. I was all of 16 when I had my first guitar lesson with Joe. But I never focused on being a bebop player. I loved the harmony, rhythm and phrasing, but I wanted to apply them to my own concept and sound.

  Larry Carlton

  Art, First Love, Player

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• Swing is extreme coordination. It's a maintaining balance, equilibrium. It's about executing very difficult rhythms with a panache and a feeling in the context of very strict time. So, everything about the swing is about some guideline and some grid and the elegant way that you negotiate your way through that grid.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Swings, Feelings, Balance

  "Wynton Marsalis Pays Homage to Jazz’s Past by Investing in Its Future". Interview with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. June 1, 2011.

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