Rhythm Quotes

As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust.

It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.

Moscow seethes and bubbles and gasps for air. It's always thirsting for something new, the newest events, the latest sensation. Everyone wants to be the first to know. It's the rhythm of life today.

Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

Is jazz a rhythm, or is it a vibration?

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

My ego only needs a good rhythm section

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.

In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it.

My concern is with the rhythms of nature I work inside out, like nature.

Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony.

Success and failure, triumph and disaster. That is the rhythm of life in the garden.

A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.

Text first, rhythm second, melody third.

There is music wherever there is rhythm, as there is life wherever there beats a pulse.

If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.