#rhythms

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#cities #colors #dwell #give #heard

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#band #body #doing #garage #hear

As we rise higher in the understanding of ourselves, the national and racial dissonances will be forgotten in the universal rhythms of Truth and Love. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#higher #love #national #ourselves #racial

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. ↗

— George Crumb

#broader #find #inevitably #insects #large

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

— Francoise Sagan

#compare #finding #i #jazz #me

I love feeling the rhythm of other people's lives. It's like traveling. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#rhythms #love

The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#first #friend #i #internal #learned

Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that words make and the rhythm that sentences have. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#brain #line #make #music #rhythm

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

— Zhang Yimou

#commercialism #elements #includes #large #like

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

#aware #down #find #get #go