Quotes about rhythm
Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings
As you get the rhythm you discern how to win.
Ellen J. Barrier - The Price We Must Pay for Our Father's Sins
Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.
Ellen J. Barrier -
Music is the Universal Language that allows all people to communicate with each other.
Miyamoto Musashi - The Book of Five Rings
There is even rhythm in being empty.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Dance with your sacred rhythm.
Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths
Only the ocean kept the same rhythm. Crashing in and slowly pulling back out, it never lied, never changed. It tried to teach them a life of romantic consistency.
Candess M. Campbell - 12 Weeks to Self-Healing: Transforming Pain Through Energy Medicine
When you find yourself pushing through and using caffeine or sugar to keep going, this is the time to listen to your innate ultradian rhythm and take a rest.
Alexandra Katehakis - Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
Sometimes it’s only in the ecstasy of unrepressed movement that we may enter the stillness of our authentic selves. In such sacred moments, the world seems to be in step. This is why the idea of finding love across the dance floor endure — symbolizing that, when we know the true rhythm of our heart, we know the other.
Sylvia Plath - Ariel
DADDYYou do not do, you do not doAny more, black shoeIn which I have lived like a footFor thirty years, poor and white,Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.Daddy, I have had to kill you.You died before I had time―Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,Ghastly statue with one grey toeBig as a Frisco sealAnd a head in the freakish AtlanticWhen it pours bean green over blueIn the waters of beautiful Nauset.I used to pray to recover you.Ach, du.In the German tongue, in the Polish townScraped flat by the rolle
Johan Huizinga - Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture
Our point of departure must be the conception of an almost childlike play-sense expressing itself in various play-forms, some serious, some playful, but all rooted in ritual and productive of culture by allowing the innate human need of rhythm, harmony, change, alternation, contrast and climax, etc., to unfold in full richness.
Bobby Keys -
I pull a lot of the stuff that I play off the rhythm tracks - and Keith Richards has been one of the main contributors to my inspirational playing.
Sara Quin -
An angel kissed my strings, while I slept last night. And her rhythm broke my hunger. And I died a little less.
Piet Mondrian -
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
Angela Morrison - Sing Me to Sleep
He looks like an angel, sings like an angel. He found my breaking heart and coaxed it into a new rhythm.
Victoria Moran - Younger by the Day: 365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)
Alexandra Katehakis - Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence
Observe the rhythm of passers-by on the street, at work, everywhere. Summon loving acceptance and let their tempos move you emotionally and corporeally. Try to assimilate new ideas by trying out the rhythms of those you encounter.
Taylor Swift -
I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
Edvard Munch -
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw.
Jelly Roll Morton -
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
George Crumb -
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.
Yehudi Menuhin -
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
Larry David -
There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
Federico Garcia Lorca -
The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
Elvis Costello -
Women hear rhythm differently than men.
Olaotan Fawehinmi - I Would Not...
When we step in the name of love, we cannot rhyme if we don't have the same RHYTHM, and we cannot have the same rhythm if we are not listening to the same BEAT.It takes someone who understands the rhythm and melody of your "heartbeat" to dance to it.
Jack Kerouac - The Dharma Bums
Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
W.B. Yeats - Rosa Alchemica
A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the steps of an exceedingly antique dance, because before my initiation could be perfected I had to join three times in a magical dance, for rhythm was the wheel of Eternity, on which alone the transient and accidental could be broken, and the spirit set free.
Charlotte Eriksson -
I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea.
Ellen J. Barrier -
Music Doesn’t Need Interpreters and Translators
Tim O'Brien -
Poetry is not an issue of form and enjambments. Poetry, as the word is classically used, has to do with sound and sense. It can be rhyme. It can be rhythm, pace, breath.
Mitch Albom - Tuesdays with Morrie
Rock and roll, big band, the blues. He loved them all. He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty.
Deepak Chopra -
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos, music embedded deep within us to which we dance, even when we can't name the tune.
Elmore Leonard -
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.
Edgar Allan Poe - The Poetic Principle
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.
Ilchi Lee - Healthy Life
Energy is the language spoken by your body. You probably already know that your brain sends bioelectric signals to your organs and muscles through the nerve pathways in your body. But did you ever consider how your brain talks to your cells?
N'Zuri Za Austin -
Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.
Victor Hugo - Les Misérables
Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
Sharon Weil - and Awakeners Navigate Change
A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.
Banani Ray - Awakening Inner Guru
Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.
Amit Ray - Yoga The Science of Well-Being
Life is a living flute, yoga is the art of creating melody and rhythm in it.
Isadora Duncan -
Now I am going to reveal to you something which is very pure, a totally white thought. It is always in my heart; it blooms at each of my steps... The Dance is love, it is only love, it alone, and that is enough... I, then, it is amorously that I dance: to poems, to music but now I would like to no longer dance to anything but the rhythm of my soul.
The Hippie - Snowflake Obsidian: Memoir of a Cutter
During the day I would move my body to the rhythm that only I could hear. I would try and connect with everything in my surroundings thinking that it somehow connected to who I was and was secretly sending me messages about what was in my soul.
Maynard James Keenan - A Perfect Union of Contrary Things
...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.
Grigoris Deoudis -
Let us liberate ourselves from any form of control. Let us focus at the inner drum, where the rhythm aligns with that of our heart. The measure of responsibility, equals to the need for evolution. Just listen, the inner child, let it whisper in your ear.
Paul Fleischman - Whirligig
The red-jacketed band stirred to life. The first musician raised his trumpet. The trombone dipped. The drumstick rose. Lea lowered her clarinet. It had been Brent's idea not to have their insturments rise and fall in unison. The staggered motion gave it a more exciting rhythm.
Marcel Proust - Swann's Way
She observed the dumb-show by which her neighbour was expressing her passion for music, but she refrained from copying it. This was not to say that, for once that she had consented to spend a few minutes in Mme. de Saint-Euverte's house, the Princesse des Laumes would not have wished (so that the act of politeness to her hostess which she had performed by coming might, so to speak, 'count double') to shew herself as friendly and obliging as possible. But she had a natural horror of what she call
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The rhythm of movement is the dance of music.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The rhythm of the dance lies in the music.
Paul Bowles - The Spider's House
There are mornings when, from the first ray of light seized upon by the eye, and the first simple sounds that get inside the head, the heart is convinced that it is existing in rhythm to a kind of unheard music, familiar but forgotten because long ago it was interrupted and only now has suddenly resumed playing. The silent melodies pass through the fabric of the consciousness like the wind through the meshes of a net, without moving it, but at the same time unmistakably there, all around it. For
Lailah Gifty Akita -
You only need to move your body to the rhythm of the music.
Munia Khan -
Stars are always dancing. Sometimes they dance twinkling away with the rhythm of your joyful heart and sometimes they dance without movement to embrace your heartache as if frozen sculptures of open-armed sadness.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing.
Mehmet Murat ildan -
If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will look strange! Be like autumn leaves which follow exactly the rhythm of the wind!
Dominic Riccitello -
He said he liked my rhythm. I said I liked his heartbeat, and it was within that moment I knew our corners would never meet.
Erik Pevernagie -
The perpetual movement of the water, rolling from and to unknown destinations, the voices of the sea shield us from the raging furies and shrieking sounds of dystopian surroundings, creating an unwinding veil for stilled happiness, acquainting us with the gentle, cosmic rhythms of an extraneous world. They are a soothing relief and let us listen to the voices of our inner world. ("Voices of the sea" )
Dominic Riccitello -
We grooved together with a rhythm so beautiful that I could feel the moment turned into poetry.
Rabindranath Tagore -
The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth in numberless blades of grass and breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers.
William Styron - Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
A disruption of the circadian cycle—the metabolic and glandular rhythms that are central to our workaday life—seems to be involved in many, if not most, cases of depression; this is why brutal insomnia so often occurs and is most likely why each day’s pattern of distress exhibits fairly predictable alternating periods of intensity and relief.
Michael Jackson -
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?