#rhythm

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

#funny #hard #line #music #rhythm

Rap is rhythm and poetry. Hip-hop is storytelling and poetry as well. ↗

— Ajay Naidu

#poetry #rap #rhythm #storytelling #well

To wit: actions, like sounds, divide the flow of time into beats.[...]The quality of a man's life depends on the rhyhmic structure he is able to impose upon the input and output of energy. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#life #rhythms #time #life

We trust nature to know what it is doing, but we are not nearly so kind, understanding and trusting of our own rhythms and cycles. It's ridiculous that we are so hard on ourselves. Can we not trust that the very same forces that created the rhythms and cycles of nature created our own? Of course we can. We often don't, but we can, if we remember. ↗

— Jeffrey R. Anderson

#faith #natural-forces #natural-rhythm #nature #remember

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. ↗

— Mark Udall

#creativity #emotionally #fatal #get #helps

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system. ↗

— George Crumb

#basic #basic elements #central #directly #elements

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan. ↗

— Jenna Elfman

#bob dylan #dylan #just #mess #playing

Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it ... ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#rhythm #inspirational

I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. ↗

— Laura Linney

#am #aware #character #clues #everything