#rhythms

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#although #experts #gospel #gospel music #i

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#capacity #ideas #images #love #must

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing. ↗

— Karlheinz Stockhausen

#body #breathing #heartbeat #identify #repetition

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

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

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

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

— Banana Yoshimoto

#rhythms #love