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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. -- Mahalia Jackson
The best way to express rhythm is music. -- John Hartford
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm. -- Jelly Roll Morton
The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. -- Bill Medley
I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm. -- Edgar Winter
Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. -- George Crumb
The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm. -- Wynton Marsalis
Guy Pearce is very precise and clear about understanding the rhythm and the music of a scene. -- Nicolas Cage
But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! -- Christian Scott
I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm. -- Leila Josefowicz
And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area. -- Bill Bruford
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music. -- Philip Glass
For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music. -- Isabelle Huppert
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. -- Diane Paulus
Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. -- E. L. Doctorow
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. -- Marianne Wiggins
I see only one requirement you have to have to be a director or any kind of artist: rhythm. Rhythm, for me, is everything. Without rhythm, there's no music. Without rhythm, there's no cinema. Without rhythm, there's no architecture. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
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
As a director, the biggest job is to discern the imperfections in emotional tone and then view it in the global picture of what you're trying to do, if that makes sense. It's a rhythm, like music is a rhythm or composition and art is a rhythm. Dialogue is a rhythm as well. -- Robert Stromberg
Rhythm is the pulse of music. -- Ignacy Jan Paderewski
Type has rhythm, just like music. -- Simon Garfield
Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience. -- C. S. Lewis
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul -- Plato
I always listen to music when I write, I need a rhythm to write. -- Fatih Ak?n
Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony. -- Plato
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more? -- Ira Gershwin
There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse. -- Igor Stravinsky
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues. -- Bill Nighy
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Emotions of any kind can be evoked by melody and rhythm; therefore music has the power to form character. -- Aristotle
What makes that record special is something that is gone from music today - it's called a rhythm section. -- Jim Dickinson
Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up. -- Rainn Wilson
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play. -- Helen Vendler
At the root of all power and motion, at the burning center of existence itself, there is music and rhythm. -- George Leonard
I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. -- Edvard Munch
When you have caught the rhythm of Africa, you find out that it is the same in all her music. -- Isak Dinesen
Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music. -- Walter J. Phillips
If God is the DJ, then Life is the dance floor; Love is the rhythm and You are the music. -- Pink
The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm. -- Elliott Carter
Dance is the music of our body, sound is the rhythm of our feeling, silence is the symphony of our soul. -- Nelly Mazloum
With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs. -- Bill Wyman
As an atheist, you cannot fully make sense of the music, you have no explanation for the perennial motion and rhythm. -- Martin Walser
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
For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music -- Isabelle Huppert
Comedy is ridiculously hard. And if the rhythm is not right, if the music or the line is not right, it's not funny. -- Julianne Moore
Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything. -- Joe Pass
When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy. -- Anthony Liccione
I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music. -- Rob Roberge
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music? -- 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~? -- Michael Jackson
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
The regular rhythm and upbeat tunes of military music or marching bands positively affect your mood even if you don't actually 'enjoy' listening to it. -- Liz Miller
We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head. -- David Mutti Clark
Yoga is like music: the rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind, and the harmony of the soul create the symphony of life. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. -- Fats Domino
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves. -- James Russell Lowell
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
Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and dances in rhythm with the music of companionship. -- Steve Maraboli
I prefer music where melody, harmony and rhythm come together and no one element overshadows the other. Jazz at its best is a democracy of creativity. -- Jimmy Heath
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across. -- Charles Kennedy
Music and text have several commonalities, and one is meter and rhythm. Both spoken word and music have certain regularities, and they can be sub-divided rhythmically. -- Jeff Britting
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
The earth moves in a certain rhythm, a certain sound, a certain note. When the music stops the earth will stop and everything upon it will die. -- Sun Ra
I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music. -- Oscar Isaac
Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear. -- Michael Cunningham
Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it -- Plato
I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point. -- Talib Kweli
Whether in music or in fiction, the most basic thing is rhythm. Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won't keep reading your work. -- Haruki Murakami
That the sweetly intoxicating three-four rhythm which took hold of hand & foot, necessarily eclipsed great & serious music & made the audience unfit for any intellectual effort goes without saying. -- Eduard Hanslick
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

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