Rhythm Quotes

When it comes, you’ll be dreaming that you don’t need to breathe; that breathless silence is the music of the dark and it’s part of the rhythm to vanish like a spark.

Wislawa Szymborska
- Dream
- Dark
- Rhythm
Let my inspiration flow, in token lines suggesting rhythm, that will not forsake me, till my tale is told and done.

Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
- Inspiration
- Lines
- Flow

The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.

Elliott Carter
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
- People
- World
- Work
It's called the mysterious rhythm of life, ... I can't quite account for it. It's probably an addiction, quite honestly. I need that shot of stage every two or three years.

Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
Five hours' New York jet lag and Cayce Pollard wakes in Camden Town to the dire and ever-circling wolves of disrupted circadian rhythm.

William Gibson
- Hours
- Jet
- Camden
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.

Plato
- Style
- Harmony
- Rhythm
As comedy presents the vital rhythm of self-preservation, tragedy exhibits that of self-consummation.

Susanne Langer
- Comedy
- Self
- Tragedy