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Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over. -- Elvis Presley
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. -- Edith Sitwell
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. -- Walter J. Phillips
Rhythm must have meaning. -- Ezra Pound
All God's Chillun got Rhythm. -- Gus Kahn
Rhythm is everything in boxing... -- Sugar Ray Robinson
Rhythm is form cut into time. -- Ezra Pound
Rhythm is the pulse of music. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables. -- Jean Philippe Rameau
It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm. -- Nelly Mazloum
I love to play smaller crowds with the Rhythm Kings. -- Bill Wyman
Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through. -- Cecil Taylor
Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul. -- Gabrielle Roth
The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why. -- Brian Setzer
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues -- Mick Taylor
The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. -- Mick Taylor
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. -- Thomas Merton
Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own. -- Erica Jong
Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place. -- James Blake
Dubstep has everything for me. Rhythm, sound design, heartfelt emotion - all in one place." -- James Blake
Rhythm is best expressed in any swing directed at a cigar stump or a dandelion head. -- Grantland Rice
Rhythm is a perception of time... when drawing, the tiredness of the hand is a rhythm. -- Pablo Picasso
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. -- Bill Nighy
You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. -- Robyn
You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm. -- Robyn
Rhythm to me is essentially what Hopkins called the taste of self. I taste myself as rhythm. -- Stanley Kunitz
She [then nine-year-old daughter Emily] grew up with 'The Rhythm is Gonna Get You,' Well . . . It got her! -- Gloria Estefan
Rhythm and timing are the two things which we all must have, yet no one knows how to teach either. -- Bobby Jones
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. -- Bill Wyman
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble. -- Sugar Ray Robinson
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it. -- Ray Charles
Rhythm, that's an essential part of cooking. The sound of a lovely song and the smell of some dish in the oven are equally evocative. -- Neneh Cherry
God is a sound frequency, and we can all tune in if we just listen. Some find The Rhythm through different melodies, but it's all music. -- Jennifer Sodini
I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key. -- Lorrie Moore
Rhythm is one of the most powerful of pleasures, and when we feel a pleasurable rhythm we hope it will continue. When it does, it grows sweeter. -- Mary Oliver
Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely. -- Kim Hyesoon
There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing. -- Greg Ginn
I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings. -- Bill Wyman
Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress. -- Bruce Barton
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. -- Maya Angelou
When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide. -- Steve Winwood
Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right -- Tom Robbins
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul -- Plato
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. -- Rainn Wilson
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. -- Bruce Lee
Rivers are places that renew our spirit, connect us with our past, and link us directly with the flow and rhythm of the natural world. -- Leo Tolstoy
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. -- Yehudi Menuhin
That's what I mean by something grips in a canvas. The moment that happens you are then sucked into the whole thing. Like some kind of rhythm. -- Philip Guston
Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't. -- Ben Kingsley
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language. -- Henri Matisse
Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it -- Maya Angelou
Music has always been important to me. Rhythm, in particular, features in most of the things I do. I stumbled recently upon an old notebook in which I'd written, 'Touch, timing and timbre... keys to the heart.' That just about says it all. -- James Nares
Existence is movement. Action is movement. Existence is defined by the rhythm of forces in natural balance. (...) It is our appreciation for dance that allows us to see clearly the rhythms of nature and to take natural rhythm to a plane of well-organised art and culture. -- Rudolf von Laban
Their pain [the injurer's pain at having injured you] and your pain create the point and counterpoint for the rhythm of reconciliation. When the beat of their pain is a response to the beat of yours, they have become truthful in their feelings...they have moved a step closer to a truthful reunion. -- Lewis B. Smedes
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Vision is the true creative rhythm. -- Robert Delaunay
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own. -- Michelangelo Antonioni
Insane sects grow with the same rhythm as big organizations. It is the rhythm of total destruction. -- Theodor Adorno
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound. -- Aphex Twin
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. -- Piet Mondrian
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play. -- Kurt Cobain
When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm. -- Matthew McConaughey
Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are. -- Mickey Hart
The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design. -- Venus Williams
The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture. -- Etta James
I read the Bible to myself; I'll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is. -- Maya Angelou
Comedy isn't necessarily all dialogue. Think of Buster Keaton: the poker face and all this chaos going on all around him. Sometimes it's a question of timing, of the proper rhythm. -- Clint Eastwood
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance. -- Venus Williams
Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything. -- Quincy Jones
Florida has its own rhythm, too. People go to work, they watch their children learn and grow and start families of their own. They play in the sun and pass their lives enjoying the outsized blessings that make our state unique. -- Jeb Bush
As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us. -- Yo-Yo Ma
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
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm. -- Jack White
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When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time with different brokers on 'Wall Street.' It helps get the rhythm of the piece and the tone, and how overplayed or underplayed it might be. That's also the magic of movies: You get to hang out and live these different lives. -- Michael Douglas
Dance with your rhythm. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Women and rhythm-section first!? -- Jaco Pastorius
Jazz is rhythm and meaning. -- Henri Matisse
In the beginning was rhythm. -- Hans von Bulow
Dance with your sacred rhythm. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Russians understand the rhythm of despair. -- Suzanne Massie
Women hear rhythm differently than men. -- Elvis Costello
Type has rhythm, just like music. -- Simon Garfield
In the beginning there was rhythm. -- Hans von Bulow
I look at melody as rhythm. -- Charlie Parker
Text first, rhythm second, melody third. -- Claudio Monteverdi
Get rhythm when you get the blues. -- Johnny Cash
There is a rhythm to the ending... -- Erica Jong
Well, rhythm is 90 percent of the interpretation. -- Ruggiero Ricci
Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business. -- William Stafford
No harmony. No melody. No rhythm. No bullshit. -- Phill Niblock
Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm -- Duncan Jones
The moon invented natural rhythm. Civilization uninvented it. -- Tom Robbins
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm. -- Ken Burns
The best way to express rhythm is music. -- John Hartford
My ego only needs a good rhythm section -- Miles Davis
The rhythm of life is a jazz rhythm -- Langston Hughes
I am learning to flow with rhythm of nature. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Every thing and every human action revolves in rhythm. -- Babatunde Olatunji
Stressed souls need the reassuring rhythm of self-nurturing rituals. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering. -- Roland Barthes
I like to stay in the rhythm of things. -- Marissa Mayer
Life follows a rhythm and we hold the drum. -- Tom Althouse
Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration? -- Anthony Braxton
Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together. -- Stevie Ray Vaughan
In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else. -- Kim Hyesoon
For me, shooting, editing, and scoring rely on rhythm. -- Donnie Yen
Clear your energy, honor your rhythm, live your vision -- George Denslow
Order is repetition of units. Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. -- M. C. Escher
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. -- C. S. Lewis
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. -- Bill Medley
The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm. -- Kim Hyesoon
One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm. -- Rosamond Lehmann
Determination is kind of like rhythm: you can't teach it. -- Jaime Pressly
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. -- Jelly Roll Morton
I will find comfort in the rhythm of the sea. -- Charlotte Eriksson
You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride. -- Lailah Gifty Akita

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