#rhythm

Because I don't 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

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

— George Crumb

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There's also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny. ↗

— Larry David

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Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things. ↗

— Ray Davies

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When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm. ↗

— Joan Didion

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I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich. ↗

— Brian Eno

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One could always do more, faster and cleverer, but democracy has its own rhythm. ↗

— Lech Walesa

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I'm aware now over the last 5 or 10 years that when you do an accent, you really have to kind of get down to the nitty gritty and go into the phonetics of it, if necessary. Find out not just the sounds but the rhythms and the music - or lack thereof - in a particular accent. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

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I like rhythmic things that butt up against each other in a cool kind of way. ↗

— Stone Gossard

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I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. ↗

— Ken Hensley

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