Rhythm Quotes
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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.
Fats Domino
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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
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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
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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
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
Patrick Stump
Fall Out Boy
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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
Federica Montseny
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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
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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
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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
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I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
Marge Piercy
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But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
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I've always really liked the rhythm element of songs.
Sam Hunt
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Whenever you come back from an injury like that, it takes time to get your rhythm back. The only thing I tell Caron is, 'Keep taking open shots. Don't turn down shots.' Sometimes he has a tendency to do that, to put his head down. I hate when he does that. He needs to keep shooting.
Eddie Charles Jones
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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.
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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
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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
