#rhythm

There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#had #heavy #i #important #listen

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#deeply #first #i #rhythm #structure

Walking is magic. Can't recommend it highly enough. I read that Plato and Aristotle did much of their brilliant thinking together while ambulating. The movement, the meditation, the health of the blood pumping, and the rhythm of footsteps...this is a primal way to connect with one's deeper self. ↗

— Paula Cole

#blood #brilliant #connect #deeper #did

I like creating these rhythmic patterns. These interlocking rhythmic things are really fun. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#fun #i #like #patterns #really

I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I'm always drawn to girls with rhythm. ↗

— David Gallagher

#drawn #friends #go #i #i can

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#continued #created #field #i #improvisation

I trained well this week but I think it will take some time until I recover my best rhythm in this specialty. ↗

— Hermann Maier

#i #i think #recover #rhythm #some

White rhythm is waltzes, marches, and the polka. In Africa, rhythm is used for a celebratory groove, but white rhythm doesn't have such an enormous vocabulary of spirits. It's basically militant. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#basically #enormous #groove #marches #militant

The Russian composers, especially, tricked the symphony orchestra into the kind of dynamic, rhythmic thing. ↗

— Gerry Mulligan

#dynamic #especially #into #kind #orchestra

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

#ear #engage #equal #fiction #inner