Cadence Quotes

• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  

  Kathryn Stripling Byer
  • Girl
  • Mystery
  • State

• Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

  

  Jean Philippe Rameau
  • Tone
  • Observe
  • Main

• The cadence of suffering has begun. Every evening at dusk, my heart constricts until night has come.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • Heart
  • Suffering
  • Constricts

• I always listen to music while I'm working and I always read aloud to my wife. I love to read aloud to an audience because there's a cadence and a beat. There's a music to the language that's very important to me.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Music
  • Important
  • Wife

• Well, the first thing I do is I try to listen to whatever rapping is already on the track. I listen for cadence and melody to see how the track's already been written, and to make sure that whatever flow or flows I decide to run with, or patterns or melodies that I decide to put into the song, that they're not already in there. Then I try to see if there's a different part of the subject matter that I can talk about.

  

  Bun B
  • Track
  • Melody
  • Rapping

• Melody always comes to me first before words - cadence and melody. When you're humming the melody and it's incredible and words start coming out it can build into something special.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Words
  • Firsts
  • Special

• Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail

  

  Kathleen Raine
  • Dark
  • Son
  • Rhythm

• Your cadence is your music.

  

  William Shatner
  • Cadence

• Prose will be used for the more objective branches of writing- novels, plays, essays..Cadence will be used for personal, emotional, lyrical utterances in which the phrasing goes with a stronger beat and the words live together with an intense flame.

  

  F.S. Flint
  • Emotional
  • Prose
  • Lyrical

• All I'm doing is writing it down and putting it in a cadence. Once I get into a cadence, then why should I even stop and wonder what it is? You can do that for the rest of your life, but when it's coming out, you don't want to stop it.

  

  Neil Young Buffalo Springfield
  • Writing
  • Wonder
  • Cadence

• I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.

  

  Dawn Angelique
  • Writing
  • Speak
  • Students

• Every time the rider forgets to regulate the cadence, the horse begins to take control.

  

  Nuno Oliveira
  • Control
  • Horse
  • Cadence

• Learning to sing one's own songs, to trust the particular cadences of own's voices, is also the goal of any writer.

  

  Henry Louis Gates
  • Song
  • Goal
  • Voice