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Rhythmic motion has become the carrier and creator of almost every ecstatic mood of any significance in human life. -- Curt Sachs
The keystone of the entire structure of the spiritual and physical universe is Rhythmic Balanced Interchange between all opposites. -- Walter Russell
Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint. -- Robert Delaunay
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track. -- Taylor Dayne
I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun. -- Danny Elfman
You and I are but specks of that rhythmic urge which is Brahma, which is Allah, which is God. -- Ruth St. Denis
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods. -- Gustav Stickley
Singing in Hindi is nice but restrictive. Regional languages are more rhythmic, have a different tone and sound, making it more interesting. -- Shreya Ghoshal
I'm very much into the Gypsy Kings. It's rumba and very festive, very passionate music, rhythmic guitar, passionate singing about love from happy people. -- Sofia Milos
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. -- Gwendoline Christie
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies. -- Chuck Mangione
Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. -- Francoise Sagan
I'm pretty goofy. I really do like to sing and dance in real life. I'm a rhythmic person. I love comedy; I love making people laugh. That's my brand. -- Xosha Roquemore
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another. -- Gregory Bateson
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it. -- Brandon Boyd
I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative. -- Irvine Welsh
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes. -- Harrison Birtwistle
Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise. -- Marnie Stern
Much of my playing is rhythmic and choppy; I use a lot of double stops. The wah just accents all those stops and chops and brings out the rhythmic aspect that much more. -- Kirk Hammett
I was a rhythmic and athletic gymnast for a little while. Then, when I quit gymnastics, I fell in love with yoga. So sometimes I think I'd like to open up a yoga studio. -- Nina Dobrev
It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour. -- Charles Hazlewood
So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically. -- Midge Ure
I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships. -- John Frusciante
Here is my wish and my desire and my pledge as well: that we remember our true nature and our womanhood. That we own and know that we are more than our bodies and yet our bodies are these sacred, beautiful, rhythmic houses for us. -- Tracee Ellis Ross
Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. -- Francoise Sagan
Because the blues is the basis of most American music in the 20th century. It's a 12-bar form that's played by jazz, bluegrass and country musicians. It has a rhythmic vocabulary that's been used by rock n' roll. It's related to spirituals, and even the American fiddle tradition. -- Wynton Marsalis
You know, rap is sort of like a form of talking, right? So it's like you can hear, you know, the slaves doing it. You can hear, like, you know, Africans and Jamaicans doing it just kind of as, like, a rhythmic, poetic conversation, you know, to a rhythm. -- Nas
Sacred play is anything that takes you into that right hemisphere of your brain. It turns out that this move away from left to the right hemisphere, that sense of expansiveness and everything, can be accomplished through unusual rhythmic action, or any action that requires so much attention away from words that you cannot think in words. -- Martha Beck
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of functional design. -- Jan Tschichold
I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work. -- Paul Hirsch
I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity. -- David Rees
I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track. -- Taylor Dayne
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. -- Gerry Mulligan
The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing -- Gerry Mulligan
I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way. -- Stone Gossard
One of the tropes of our videos is that they were very rhythmic with clipped edits. -- Stephen Mallinder
I'm more of a rhythmic player. My soloing is pretty much limited to playing slide guitar. -- George Thorogood
There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page. -- Allan Gurganus
A good sentence in prose should be like a good line in poetry, unchangeable, as rhythmic, as sonorous. -- Gustave Flaubert
The dance lives in all mankind as a necessary motor-rhythmic expression of excess energy and the joy of living. -- Curt Sachs
The way of the Cross is not easy, yet it is the tuneful, the rhythmic, the beautiful, the lovely way. -- Edgar Cayce
The quiet rhythmic monotone of the wall of logs fills one with the rustic peace of a secluded nook in the woods." -- Gustav Stickley
Love is the song of the soul singing to God. It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit -- Paramahansa Yogananda
A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change. -- Rebecca West
This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry. -- Frank Sinatra, Jr.
[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew. -- Margaret Mead
Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life -- Kateryna Serebrianska
Most good writing is clear, vigorous, honest, alive, sensuous, appropriate, unsentimental, rhythmic, without pretension, fresh, metaphorical, evocative in sound, economical, authoritative, surprising, memorable, and light. -- Ken Macrorie
Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go. -- Bruce Lee
All my songs are based on melody, which is retrieved from my Jewish heritage. Melody will always exist no matter what the rhythmic changes there are. -- Neil Diamond
Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines. -- Arthur Wesley Dow
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. -- Wendell Phillips
Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models. -- Ruben Blades
The pulse of a strong relationship involves a rhythmic movement between giving and taking, talking and listening, valuing the other person and feeling commensurately valued in return. -- Jim Loehr
Religious music is by far the greatest music of the ages. What is there to compare-in rhythmic beauty, poetic sublimity, and inspired teachings-with the Psalms of David? -- Bruce R. McConkie
Shakespeare is rhythmic; he is musical in the sense that he likes poetry, and he's musical because he constantly refers to settings where there's singing and dancing. -- Kenneth Branagh
The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark. -- Cesare Pavese
I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing -- Joe
I definitely have a gift for language that is rhythmic and attractive to the ear, and I have interesting [verbal] imagery which I guess is a poetic touch. -- George Carlin
Asymmetry is the rhythmic expression of funtional design. In addition to being more logical, asymmetry has the advantage that its complete appearance is far more optically effective than symmetry. -- Jan Tschichold
...black music is a group music. That's why I don't like doing a solo saxophone thing: My feeling stems from rhythm, I really have to feel that rhythmic thing happening. -- Jimmy Lyons
I love rhythmic dancing - I'm not derogating it at all. It's just that sometimes you want to whisper, "I adore you." And for that you need strings and woodwinds. -- Gene Kelly
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited. -- Frederick Lenz
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There's alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we're in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited. -- Frederick Lenz
Great emotion always tends to become rhythmic, and out of that tendency the forms of art have been evolved. Art becomes artificial only when the forms take precedence over the emotion. -- Amy Lowell
Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are. -- Teodora Alexandrova
I think rhythm is, when you talk about rhythmic sensibility, quite perceptive in that I like to have at least one thing that is at least common or familiar to the audience. -- Herbert
Too often an institution serves to bless the majority opinion. Today when too many move to the rhythmic beat of the status quo, whoever would be a Christian must be a nonconformist. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometimes, if I had until the next day to turn the story in, I'd head home, finding that the knot in the narrative came loose with the rhythmic clacking of the subway train. -- Calvin Trillin
What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based. -- Gwenno
Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry. -- Dylan Thomas
Partly it was a sort of hymn to the wisdom and majesty of Big Brother, but still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise. -- George Orwell
It was but yesterday I thought myself a fragment quivering without rhythm in the sphere of life. Now I know that I am the sphere, and all life in rhythmic fragments moves within me. -- Khalil Gibran
It's as simple as finding something on the street and then writing a jingle. If I'm driving and I have my turn signal on and it's rhythmic, maybe I just write a song to that. -- Nate Ruess
As a former English professor, I can assure you that grammar is the qualitative interpolation of language. Adjectives, pronouns, predicates, past pluperfect indicative - ridiculous. It has qualities, shadings, differentiations, rhythmic structures of symbolic meaning. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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