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• Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.

  Steve Martin

  Real, Different Experiences, Band

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• I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I've got them spread out all over the place.

  Marian McPartland

  New York, West Coast, Spread

  "Marian McPartland At 86". Interview with Lazaro Vega, www.allaboutjazz.com. July 22, 2004.

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• White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant.

  Joni Mitchell

  Vocabulary, White, Spirit

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• I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Color, Saws

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• The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

  Knute Rockne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

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• Rhythm is born in all of us. To be a desirable dancing partner, you don't have to do all the intricate fancy steps that happen to be in vogue. All you have to do is be a good average dancer, and anybody who spends the time and effort can accomplish this.

  Ginger Rogers

  Motivational, Dance, Average

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Change, Dance

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• Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.

  Francoise Sagan

  Writing, Character, Finding The One

  "Françoise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15". Interview with Blair Fuller and Robert B. Silvers, www.theparisreview.org. Autumn 1956.

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• A metaphysical tour de force of untethered meaning and involuting interlocking contrapuntal rhythms, 'The Clock' is more than a movie or even a work of art. It is so strange and other-ish that it becomes a stream-of-consciousness algorithm unto itself - something almost inhuman.

  Jerry Saltz

  Movie, Art, Algorithms

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• I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop.

  Jill Scott

  Writing, Hip Hop, Musical

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• When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.

  Robert Smith

  Song, Guitar, Drunk

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• Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally.

  Cat Stevens

  Inspiration, Guitar, Play

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• I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

  Taylor Swift

  Giving, Way, Slow Motion

  "Taylor Swift: 'I want to believe in pretty lies'" by Alex Macpherson, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2012.

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• Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Together

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• One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm.

  Lech Walesa

  Democracies Have, Democracy, Faster

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• Both my parents had heavy accents, and so did everybody they knew. It's a rhythm thing - people who speak English where they have to hesitate and think of the right word. And I think it rubbed off.

  Christopher Walken

  Thinking, Speak English, People

  "Readers recommend: songs sung with accents" by Peter Kimpton, www.theguardian.com. November 19, 2015.

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• Despite the usual idea of a figure skater, I have no rhythm when it comes to even walking off the ice. I fall off curbs all the time.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Ice, Ideas

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• The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

  Venus Williams

  Fashion, Design, Balance

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• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  Venus Williams

  Two, Tennis, Three

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• It's very interesting, the joke comes first and then the wording comes within five seconds, maybe ten seconds. My thing is to get the joke across in as few words as possible. However, sometimes a word that's not really needed does help the rhythm of it. It's a gut feeling.

  Steven Wright

  Interesting, Feelings, Doe

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• For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm.

  Donnie Yen

  Editing, Shooting, Rely

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• Action choreographer is like talking. When you talk, you have a rhythm. When you act, you have a rhythm. When you're moving your body, you have a rhythm. So as an actor, as a choreographer, the objective is trying to blend everything in - into - ultimately back into that character.

  Donnie Yen

  Moving, Character, Talking

  "TalkAsia" with Kristie Lu Stout, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

  Zhang Yimou

  Plot, Stories, Elements

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• My brother Alex fell in love with rhythm and blues early and gave me a strong dose of it.

  James Taylor

  Brother, Strong, Rhythm And Blues

  "James Taylor's Back With New Music On 'Before This World'". "Here & Now" with Robin Young., www.wbur.org. June 16, 2015.

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• A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe.

  Michio Kaku

  Baby, Thinking, Mirrors

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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