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Rhythms Quotes
If there was no black man there would be no RocknRoll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created RocknRoll and Jazz. - Ray Manzarek Quotes
Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully. - Johannes Brahms Quotes
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. - George Crumb Quotes
Because I dont play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally. - Cat Stevens Quotes
I think rhythms can be more satisfying in the short term - like, more immediately. It can be kind of obsessively and compulsively rewarding. - Jonny Greenwood Quotes
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. - Shelby Foote Quotes
Certain rhythms just have certain moods. - Dennis Brown Quotes
Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know thats what the jazz experts say. - Mahalia Jackson Quotes
I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. - Olivier Messiaen Quotes
In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. - Wallace Stevens Quotes
Theres a couple of tracks on the new record which is sort of using similar sort of rhythms as the drum and bass tracks but playing it all live. Its a new approach to it. - Tom Jenkinson Quotes
As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. - Ruth St Denis Quotes
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place. - Stanley Crouch Quotes
I could tell you which writers rhythms I am imitating. Its not exactly plagiarism, its falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. - Charles Kuralt Quotes
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars. - Gustave Flaubert Quotes
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 Quotes
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