#rhythms

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

#any #because #been #guitar #harmonies

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

— Stephen Stills

#edge #high #high school #i #last

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

— John Hartford

#circles #everything #happens #rhythms #spirals

I try to manage my day by my circadian rhythms because the creativity is such an elusive thing, and I could easily just stomp over it doing my administrative stuff. ↗

— Scott Adams

#because #could #creativity #day #doing

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

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose. ↗

— Shelby Foote

#incidentally #including #interesting #into #lot

I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#could #exactly #falling #falling in love #good

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

— Richard Morris

#drawn #mainly #messages #rhythms #secular

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#blues #hope #i #i love #jazz