Bent Sæther Quotes
Where Snah Hans Magnus Ryan is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, and he surely wipes the floor with me in others, and we both know it's like that.
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I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.
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How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
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I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
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All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are.
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Tis true among fields and woods I sing, Aloof from cities--that my poor strains Were born, like the simple flowers you bring, In English meadows and English lanes.
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My definition of an expert in any field is a person who knows enough about what's really going on to be scared.
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People are tied together and yet isolated from each other by invisible threads of rhythm and hidden walls of time. Time is... a primary organizer of all activities, a synthesizer and integrator, a way of handling priorities and categorizing experience, a feedback mechanism for how things are going, a measuring rod against which competence, effort, and achievement are judged as well as a special message system revealing how people really feel about each other and whether or not they can get along.
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You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.
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Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.
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When I lived in rural Oxfordshire, I was walking home across a field when I stroked a cow. The damn thing butted me in the orchestras.
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For us the mountains had been a natural field of activity where, playing on the frontiers of life and death, we had found the freedom for which we were blindly groping and which was as necessary to us as bread.
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Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
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I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
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I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.
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You are a beautiful mess, you are the melody.
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Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down
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I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.
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God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
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Like a diaphanous nightgown, language both hides and reveals.
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Life's always changing. We always are being called to adapt.
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Where Snah Hans Magnus Ryan is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, and he surely wipes the floor with me in others, and we both know it's like that.
