Rhythm Quotes

• It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Sleep
  • Collapse
  • Amazement

• I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Love
  • Harmony

• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Fun
  • You
  • Rhythm

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

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • Rhythm
  • Editing

• I've got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • People
  • Style
  • Guitar

• Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.

  

  Vernon Duke
  • May
  • You
  • Paris

• With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Song
  • Choices

• 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.

  

  Fats Domino
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Calling

• I was brought up in Florence, a beautiful medieval town whose rhythm is completely in antiquity.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Town

• I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

  

  Kate Grenville
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Write

• I tried to find a rhythm, and I stopped comparing myself to anybody else. One of the great phrases for me is "Compare and despair." If I compare myself to Kate Middleton or Dame Judi Dench, I'm going to come out at the bottom and be sad.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Rhythm
  • Phrases
  • Comparing

• The focus of my playing is the groove, and every time I find a new rhythm, I find I can write a bunch of new songs. Learning how to dance, or drum, or to swing my body in a new way is the fundamental way I find a new riff. Because when you learn to swing your body in a new way, you begin to swing with your instrument differently.

  

  Stone Gossard Pearl Jam
  • Learning
  • Focus
  • Songs

• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Me
  • Human
  • Genius

• The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • People
  • Fight
  • Rhythm

• I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Always
  • Really
  • Rhythm

• I look at melody as rhythm.

  

  Charlie Parker
  • Rhythm
  • Melody

• Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Instrument
  • Moves
  • First Love

• She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her!

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Daughter
  • Rhythm
  • Grew

• I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Steps
  • Settling
  • Hospitality

• Daddy says the world is a drum tight and hard and I told him I'm gonna beat out my own rhythm.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • World
  • Beats
  • Daddy

• It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • Rock
  • Used
  • Rocks

• Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Fun
  • Play

• To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Time
  • May
  • She

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