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“I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words.”

“The body of poetry is nothing but energy, waves, rhythm.”

“The rhythm of my body is the same as my mother tongue. It is in this rhythm where I find sanctity, that I can return to my mother who is everywhere in the universe.”

I Can Body Mother Universe Return Tongue Rhythm Sanctity Mother Tongue

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“In poetry, rhythm is a priority above everything else.”

Priorities Rhythm

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“Poems are a dance of language that comes out when my body taps into the rhythm of language. Rhythm gets us naked and exposes our selves completely.”

Self Body Language Naked Rhythm

Author:Kim Hyesoon

“When you think of things that influenced your life, Mother Goose influenced more people than almost any other thing, the rhythms of those poems. Everything after that was a bare imitation of some of those mysterious and materialistic poems.”

People Thinking Mother Mysterious Rhythm Imitation Materialistic Geese Mother Goose

Author:Grace Paley

“I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.”

Looks Enough My Own Rhythm Deejays

Author:Talib Kweli

“I like working in series, so instead of just doing one separate body of work, what if I come up with a different rhythm, instead of every week, what if I make it every year? And so I'm still setting up a series, a repetition, but it's a completely different work flow.”

Ifs Years Stills Different Body Week Flow Series Come Up Setting Settings Rhythm What If Repetition Work Flow

Author:Paul Madonna

“But it's clear to me that us slow-poke writers are a dying breed. It's amazing how thoroughly my young writing students have internalized the new machine rhythm, the rush many of my young writers are in to publish. The majority don't want to sit on a book for four, five years. The majority don't want to listen to the silence inside and outside for their artistic imprimatur. The majority want to publish fast, publish now.”

Want Writing Years Book Young Silence Clear Five Four Dying Students Machines Majority Rhythm Artistic Five Years Publish Poke Young Writers Inside And Outside

Author:Junot Diaz

“The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.”

Looks Reality Eye Today Simple Rhythm Activist

Author:Bill Ayers

“Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can be called that, consists of the stereotyped variations that go with a beginner's aria in a bathroom. For the ear, he is an unutterable bore.”

Ifs Song Ability Singing Ears Rhythm Bores Bathroom Variation Beginners Specialty Aria

Author:Jack Gould

“The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.”

Firsts Interest Contemporary Rhythm Contemporary Music

Author:Elliott Carter

“It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.”

Needs Heart Long Night Flower Seasons Rhythm Sunlight Respectful True Nature Open Heart Be Respectful

Author:Jack Kornfield

“We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.”

People Knows Mean Two Play Shows Song Stars Memories Focus Rocks Tvs Needed Pure Elements Musician Guitar Rounds Rhythm Just One Tv Shows Rock Star Entertainers Early Work

Author:Pete Townshend

“How, then, has Obama been saddled with an image of being long on inspiration and short on details? The answer is that journalists are not accustomed to covering a candidate who moves crowds the way Obama does, who uses speech cadences and rhythm like Martin Luther King Jr. without making his talk explicitly about race. Sen. Clinton already owned the policy-wonk slot, so by default, Obama was cast as the poetic one.”

Way Long Doe Use Inspiration Moving Answers Race Policy Kings Speech Clinton Casts Details Crowds Rhythm Journalist Candidates Poetic Accustomed Luther Covering Default Cadence

Author:Howard Kurtz

“Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.”

World Moments Moving Sound Happenings Rhythm

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I do love writing prose interspersed with the poetry of other people. Their rhythms break into my prose and create a connection.”

People Writing Break Connections Rhythm Prose

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“I think my prose - mine and that of others - sometimes slips into a cadence or rhythm that can replicate or come close to the music in a wonderful poem, and then it returns to the sound of prose.”

Thinking Sometimes Sound Wonderful Mines Return Rhythm Prose Slips Cadence Replicate

Author:Pattiann Rogers

“There is a double rhythm in all human beings. We are binary beings - two arms, two legs, two eyes, two ears. Two legs for walking. And the heartbeat thumping in our chest mirrors that.”

Humans Heart Two Eye Human Beings Arms Walking Ears Mirrors Legs Rhythm Chests Heartbeat Binary

Author:Paul Auster

“Take a report. It's dry, the sentences are clunky and unfelicitous, they're just conveying information. But it seems to me that if you're fully engaged in a great piece of literature, once you enter the rhythms of the language, which is a kind of music, meanings are being conveyed that you're not fully aware of. They enter into your subconscious.”

Ifs Kind Seems Literature Language Pieces Information Sentences Rhythm Engaged Dry Reports Subconscious Conveying

Author:Paul Auster

“I feel I'm discovering something new, a different rhythm, and I guess these rhythms have a lot to do with walking, too, but it's a longer trajectory now. I'm traveling greater distances with each sentence. But I don't write about walking that much anymore.”

Feels Writing Different Greater Walking Distance Sentences Rhythm Something New Discovering Trajectory Discovering Something Discovering Something New

Author:Paul Auster

“I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.”

Steps Rhythm Settling Hospitality

Author:Paul Auster

“People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too.”

People Ifs Knows Way Might Acting Particular Perspective Personality Comfortable Perception Approach Picks Rhythm Comedian Pace Timing

Author:Mike Tyson

“Once I start writing, I am a huge reviser. To me writing is revising. I probably turn over every sentence that I write, to see if I have the rhythm right. That's why my first drafts take a really long time.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Long Turns Huge Long Time Sentences Rhythm Really Long Revising

Author:Matt de la Pena

“To me, if the writing doesn't have rhythm, it feels dead. I lose all confidence. The music has to emerge to feel confident enough to move on to the next major chapter.”

Ifs Feels Writing Enough Moving Next Loses Majors Rhythm Chapters

Author:Matt de la Pena

“As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV, it's hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. It's a different pace. So, it's about adjusting to the pace. It's not meant for everybody.”

Different Film Used Certain Actors Tvs Directors Rhythm Pace Adjusting Film Directors Film Actors

Author:Lee Daniels

“Where Snah [Hans Magnus Ryan] is a melody and texture man, I am more of a riff, rhythm and concept guy. I am much better than him in certain fields, and he surely wipes the floor with me in others, and we both know it's like that.”

Knows Men Guy Certain Fields Concepts Rhythm Melody Wipe Texture

Author:Bent Saether

“When we travel for research our strategy is to simply move from kitchen to kitchen. It's truly a wonderful way to travel - food shopping, cooking and eating in one home for lunch and then another for dinner. The process of cooking takes us immediately into the rituals and rhythms of daily life and also places us firmly in the position of learners. We were meet with incredible generosity by all of the families we ate with.”

Way Home Moving Process Wonderful Position Eating Research Cooking Strategy Incredibles Dinner Rhythm Generosity Kitchen Daily Life Ritual Lunch Shopping Learners Cooking And Eating

Author:Jon Rubin

“It's something that's difficult to explain but I think all writers work this way to some extent, whether we're aware of it or not. For me, writing has little to do with thinking. I don't want to control the narrative. I listen to the rhythm of the words and dialogue and try to give the characters the space in which to say and do what they want without intervening too much.”

Thinking Way Want Giving Writing Trying Littles Character Difficult Space Too Much Dialogue Rhythm Narrative Intervening

Author:Mary J. Miller

“It's definitely about the rhythm of the words and how they sound together, writing one sentence and then another and another and cutting something immediately if it doesn't feel true. I come from a family of musicians and - while I have no musical abilities of my own - I think I inherited a good ear.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Writing Together Sound My Own Ability Cutting Musician Ears Musical Sentences Rhythm One Sentence Musical Ability

Author:Mary J. Miller

“You don't really have time to do other than what's written. It's very rigid. Shows have a certain rhythm that nobody wants disturbed. So a lot of that doesn't take place on television, at least the television I was doing at the time when I first started.”

Want Firsts Shows Certain Written Television Rhythm Disturbed

Author:Gary Cole

“He [Phil Jackson] is such a basketball genius in terms of the details of the game, the little nuances of the game and the rhythm of the game.”

Littles Games Term Genius Basketball Details Rhythm Nuance

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I always write from rhythm first, so if I need a song fast, I have to start there. Then I just threw some electric guitar at it.”

Ifs Needs Writing Firsts Song Guitar Rhythm Electric Electric Guitar

Author:Erin McKeown

“Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.”

Thinking Mind Real Ends Stories Novel Greater Effects Emotional Sitting Rhythm Emotional Power

Author:Adam Ross

“Sometimes it starts with a random lyric idea that sets the tone for the whole song. Chords and sounds build from the lyric and rhythm, kind of. Sometimes it's a track I fall I love with... but writing my own songs, I rarely write on tracks.”

Writing Kind Ideas Sometimes Whole Song Fall Sound My Own Track Rhythm Tone Chords

Author:Tove Lo

“It's just me and my guitar, and the rhythm's from there, and the poetry of life.”

Guitar Rhythm

Author:Terrence Howard

“I also swim four to five times a week, and once you get rolling into a rhythm of breathing and movement, your mind can truly untether, which I find so refreshing.”

Mind Five Four Week Movement Rhythm Breathing Swim Rolling Refreshing

Author:Patrick Fabian

“I think the way I write is kind of naturally rhythmic. If there's anything of my own in my writing, I think that's my own thing. Like when I start a song, I almost hear the rhythm more than the melody.”

Ifs Thinking Way Writing Kind Song My Own Rhythm Melody

Author:Jazmine Sullivan

“I was singing when I was five years old. My sister and I both had the talent from mom and dad, and she was in opera and I was into pop and uh, rhythm and blues, anything, I was about a four octave singer.”

Years Five Four Talent Mom Dad Singing Pops Singers Rhythm Five Years My Sister Opera Mom And Dad Five Year Olds Rhythm And Blues

Author:Carl Gardner

“Then, you know, the other more-traditional role of the producer in, like, the kind of Quincy Jones sense is kind of part arranger. So you're coming up with, like, these - you hear these songs that are quite bare-bones, and you dream up what's the band doing? What's the rhythm section doing? What's the guitars, strings, pianos - that sort of thing. It's almost like a little toolbox.”

Knows Kind Littles Dream Song Roles Band Guitar Bones Traditional Producers Rhythm Piano Strings Sections Toolbox Rhythm Section Guitar Strings

Author:Mark Ronson

“The Blind album itself was more drum and rhythm-centric and I really enjoyed that.”

Blind Albums Rhythm Enjoyed

Author:Reed Mullin

“One of the things that happens when we're feeling more love and care is that we go into what's called "heart rhythm coherence," which you can actually measure and monitor on a computer screen. It's also possible to train yourself to go into heart rhythm coherence at will.”

Heart Feelings Happens Care Computer Train Screens Rhythm Coherence Love And Care Computer Screen

Author:Marci Shimoff

“Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.”

Knows Rhythm Caribbean Bachata

Author:Juan Luis Guerra

“It's a different rhythm than most movies. For a lot of the actors, you're 12,000 miles away from home. It becomes a way of life - getting up at five in the morning, shooting every day, day in day out, for 270 days. The new cast playing the dwarves were carrying incredibly heavy weights in their suits, they sat through hours of make-up every day. So it's quite challenging from a stamina point of view.”

Way Different Home Actors Hours Challenges Views Morning Five Weight Casts Heavy Point Of View Miles Suits Rhythm Shooting Sat Stamina Miles Away Dwarves Away From Home Heavy Weights

Author:Andy Serkis

“Sometimes I start with music on and then I get distracted because I'm working to a different rhythm; I'm not working to myself. So, I don't have music on when I'm working.”

Different Sometimes Rhythm Distracted

Author:Sue Tompkins

“When I start writing for the day, I usually read aloud the chapter I'm working on. It gets me into it and illuminates mistakes. I'm very rhythm conscious and I do enjoy repetition.”

Writing Enjoy Mistake Conscious Rhythm Chapters Repetition

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“I kind of end up getting caught up in whatever the rhythm of the movie is and how open the director is to changing things in the moment or finding it in rehearsal.”

Kind Ends Moments Directors Findings Caught Rhythm Caught Up Rehearsal

Author:Michael Cera

“I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music.”

Writing Influence Rhythm Prose

Author:Rob Roberge

“Back then I was still listening to rhythm and blues, and my aunt took me to see a Pete Seeger concert. And it gelled. He made all the sense in the world to me. I got addicted to his albums, and then Belafonte and Odetta - they were the people who seemed to fuse things that were important to me into music. I think Pete the most because he did what he did to the point where he took those enormous risks and then paid for them.”

People Thinking World Made Stills Important Risk Listening Paid Albums Enormous Rhythm Concerts Aunt Fuse Rhythm And Blues

Author:Joan Baez

“I'm finding none. It's the same thing! It's about rhythms and beats and what connects to what. It's the same; the song has to connect to the story to get from this point to that point. So even though there may not be music in the show there is. You have to follow this delicate score. I don't think there's a huge difference. But, I don't have sore muscles! I'm not sore from dancing all day!”

Thinking May Stories Shows Song Differences Huge Findings Beats Dancing Rhythm Muscles Score Delicate

Author:Kendra Kassebaum

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