Top 394 Rhythms Quotes & Sayings

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then there is the Caribbean influences... This whole idea that there is any such thing in music that "purity" is bunk, it just doesn't exist. I love that I am playing these rhythms to people. And the next time they hear something that's maybe a little more exotic, I have created a little bridge, and they are going, "Oh, this actually sounds really cool. It reminds me a little bit of that, but it's something different."

We haven't really - it's harder for us to set those rhythms. So it's really important to keep a steady bedtime and wake time to really lock in those rhythms.

One must find rhythms others' ears don't hear.

When the rhythms of our body-mind are in synch with nature's rhythms, when we are living in harmony with life, we are living in the state of grace. To live in grace is to experience that state of consciousness where things flow effortlessly and our desires are easily fulfilled. Grace is magical, synchronistic, coincidental, joyful. It's that good-luck factor. But to live in grace we have to allow nature's intelligence to flow through us without interfering.

There's something about the rhythms of language that correspond to the rhythms of our own bodies.

Truly, with a sitcom and the rhythms of comedy... music is so helpful in that area of life.

When I started rhyming, my favorite rhythms were from John Coltrane and some of the things he did on sax. And certain rhythms that I hear on drums, I try to emulate with my words, dropping on the same patterns that them beats or them notes would hit.

I have all the rhythm in my left hand, and I use the rhythms that Gene Krupa did on his drums.

I always read poetry before I write, to sensitize me to the rhythms and music of language.

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.

True development must be in harmony with the needs of people and the rhythms of the natural world.

Stravinsky influenced film music in general - those stabbing chords and rhythms from 'The Rite of Spring.'

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

The artist's role is to invent rhythms and forms to reveal a deeper apprehension of reality for the viewer.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

There is the idea that, when we look at things, it is the yellow light that helps us the most, that we are the most sensitive for. But our circadian rhythms, which are the rhythms that help us to wake and sleep and be alert and relaxed and so forth and so on, they are much more triggered by blue light.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

For the very young, there's nothing better than Mother Goose and anything by Dr. Seuss for the rhythms and language.

I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

Now circadian rhythms become very interesting and problematic for patients because when you become a teenager, your rhythms actually tend to naturally shift.

In western classical music with an orchestra, you focus the orchestra on melodies and harmony. In African music, the biggest focus is on rhythms and counter-rhythms - the complexity of rhythms.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

Rhythms, beats, etc., are fundamentally central to my creative drive: my first instrument was the drums, nearly every band I have been involved in or at the helm of, is driven by rhythm, my band is driven entirely by rhythm, machine rhythm, and the purpose of the rock instrumentation is literally to speak the beats, to emulate the rhythms with guitars and bass, with very little articulation, and without being 'progressive'.

Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

It [music] has an awakening function. Life is a rhythm. Art is an organization of rhythms. Music is a fundamental art that touches our will system. In Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Idea he speaks of music as the sound that awakens the will. The rhythm of the music awakens certain life rhythms, ways of living and experiencing life. So it's an awakener of life.

When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we are on war time, mobilized for battle. Yes, we are strong and capable people, we can work without stopping, faster and faster, electric lights making artificial day so the whole machine can labor without ceasing. But remember: No living thing lives like this. There are greater rhythms, seasons and hormonal cycles and sunsets and moonrises and great movements of seas and stars. We are part of the creation story, subject to all its laws and rhythms.

One cannot understand the rhythms and meanings of the outer world until one has mastered the dialects of the body.

There are rhythms in the world waiting for words to be written to them.

Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos.

in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction.

All of our physical rhythms are being affected by sound outside us all the time.

I think when you're a writer most of what you read influences you. The rhythms get into your head.

The obsession with economic profit and technical efficiency puts the human rhythms of life at risk.

I do like Burial; he's so curiously clumsy, you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood, and the rhythms are so un-danceable.

Walter is incredibly complex. I do a lot of thinking about the work I do, and try to get the rhythms of scenes.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.

Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging.

Tidal rhythms have an effect on our physiology.... When we feel out of sorts, our body is out of sync with the body of the Universe. Spending time near the ocean, or anywhere in nature, can help us to synchronize our rhythms with nature's rhythms.

You can get the highest quality sleep by keeping your sleep cycles in tune with the rhythms of the universe (known as circadian rhythms).

Because art is life, playing to other rhythms.

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

Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK.

We have other opposite problems with circadian rhythms that can happen when you - a lot of times with older adults. They start to go to bed at 6:00, 7:00 at night and they wake up at 2:00 in the morning. And they're rhythms actually shift earlier, but sometime it can just kind of miss the mark and shift too much earlier and that's when we need to treat it with bright light.

Familiarity is all the rage. And if you're doing something that doesn't have its rhythms preset, you know, everybody's a little bit uncomfortable.

Punctuation is biological. It is the physical indication of the body-rhythms which the reader is to acknowledge.

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

The so-called commercialism includes elements like story, plots, rhythms and large big scenes.

A human body can think thoughts, play a piano, kill germs, remove toxins, make a baby all at once. Once it's doing that your biological rhythms are actually mirroring the symphony of the universe because you have circadian rhythms, seasonal rhythms, tidal rhythms you know they mirror everything that is happening in the whole universe.

... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks.

As you get drawn more and more into other activities, like political activities, very demanding, you have to find different rhythms of writing; I think that's the word I'm looking for, rhythms of creativity which then, of course, become very intense. I think your writing then tends to be very intensified simply because there are other demands which seem equally important.

I spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms.