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“Mass production is only profitable if its rhythm can be maintained.. that is, if it can continue to sell its product in steady or increasing quantity. The result is that while, under the handicraft or small-unit system of production that was typical a century ago, demand created the supply, today supply must actively seek to create its corresponding demand.”

Ifs Today Results Century Products Demand Mass Sells Productions Selling Rhythm Steady Quantity Typical Units Profitable Corresponding Mass Production Handicrafts

Book:Propaganda

Source: Propaganda

“I watch the confusion of friends all numb with love moving like stray dogs to the anthem of night long conversations of pulsing rhythms and random voltage voices in spite of themselves graceful as these raindrops creeping spermlike across the car window.”

Long Moving Night Voice Friendship Watches Dog Car Conversation Window Confusion Rhythm Spite Numb Anthem Raindrops Voltage Long Conversations Stray Dogs

Author:Bruce Cockburn

“I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.”

Writing Joy Satisfaction Rhythm Tone Texture

Book:Conversations with John Steinbeck

Source: Conversations with John Steinbeck

“Charlie Patton, who was born in 1891, recorded some of the very first blues. In 'Pony Blues' and 'Peavine Blues,' he manages to pile dense layers of rhythms one upon the other.”

Firsts Born Manage Rhythm Layers Charlie Dense Ponies

Author:Tim Cahill

“Women hear rhythm differently than men.”

Men Gender Rhythm

Author:Elvis Costello

“From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.”

Ifs Should Ends Used Speak Sound Lines Modern Planets Beats Training Add Patterns Rhythm Eras Hitting Mars Signatures Modern Era

Author:Nicholson Baker

“The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.”

Mind Feelings Action Lines Effects Direct Objectives Rhythm Consideration Affected Tempo Direct Effect

Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms and alliterations. You have to read poetry slow, slow, slow to absorb it all.”

School Too Much Involved High School Rhythm Alliteration

Author:Eugene H. Peterson

“For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.”

Firsts Art Hands Age Today Form Choices Lines Effort Poet Fundamentals Structure Rhythm Vanity Developing Characteristics Idiom

Author:James Fenton

“I think I can keep a rhythm to a beat, but there are quite a few people who would argue with me.”

People Thinking I Can Beats Arguing Rhythm

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.”

Happens Rooms Seeing Areas Rhythm Engines Sections Rhythm Section

Author:Bill Bruford

“Spielberg gave us three takes before saying anything to us. Since then, I do that, three takes, to let the actors find their rhythm.”

Three Actors Rhythm

Author:Edward Burns

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”

Humans Long Literature Stars Bears Speech Dance Rhythm Crude Cracked Kettles

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.”

World Writing Hours Break Morning Fit Six Rhythm Clock

Author:Justin Cronin

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

Elements Nervous Rhythm Nervous System Central Nervous System

Author:George Crumb

“It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.”

Thinking Alive Crazy Window Noise Rhythm Spain Switzerland Drive Me Crazy

Author:Geraldine Chaplin

“I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.”

Break Training Rhythm

Author:Kim Clijsters

“When I came back from Bolivia, my Spanish was in some ways as good as my English. I am rusty today. But I am comfortable talking in Spanish. I am not flawless or fluent, but I am comfortable. It takes me a day or two speaking a lot of Spanish to get back into a rhythm.”

Way Two Today Talking Comfortable Rhythm Get Back Take Me Flawless Fluent Bolivia

Author:David Dewhurst

“To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.”

Sound Conscious Guitar Track Studios Rhythm

Author:Dimebag Darrell

“All the records I've made have pretty much been big club turntable records. You need to feel the rhythm.”

Needs Feels Made Bigs Records Clubs Rhythm Turntables

Author:Jermaine Dupri

“The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.”

Fall Truth Is Lucky Rhythm Rise And Fall Waltz

Author:Len Goodman

“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.”

Ifs Years Kind Lasts Sound Particular Rhythm Accents Phonetics

Author:Brendan Gleeson

“Hiking a ridge, a meadow, or a river bottom, is as healthy a form of exercise as one can get. Hiking seems to put all the body cells back into rhythm. Ten to twenty miles on a trail puts one to bed with his cares unraveled.”

Body Seems Care Form Nature Exercise Healthy Bed Ten Rivers Twenties Bottom Miles Rhythm Cells Hiking Trails Meadows Ridges

Author:William O. Douglas

“The rhythm is below me, the rhythm of the heat. The rhythm is around me, the rhythm has control. The rhythm is inside me, the rhythm has my soul.”

Art Soul Media Entertainment Rhythm My Soul Heat

Author:Peter Gabriel

“... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.”

Humans Body Culture Language Voice Movement Rhythm Tied Infant Hierarchy Sync Human Voice Body Movement

Author:Edward T. Hall

“The point is to get a good rhythm, to make it mindless, almost as a daydream. To walk like breathing. To make it what the body wants, what the air wants, what time wants.”

Want Body Walks Air Rhythm Breathing Daydreaming Mindless

Book:The Volcano Lover

Source: The Volcano Lover

“If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.”

Ifs Want Lost Rhythm Explanation Swimming Jungle

Author:Neil Young

“When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.”

Heart Poetry Night Rhythm

Author:Steve Winwood

“I've never been a big soloist; I just put in what needs to be there. I'm more of a rhythm player who plays lead - or tries to play lead.”

Needs Trying Play Bigs Player Rhythm

Author:Jerry Cantrell

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

Country Rhythm Rhythm And Blues

Author:Ray Davies

“Simultaneity in light is harmony, the rhythm of colors which creates the Vision of Man.”

Men Light Vision Color Harmony Rhythm

Author:Robert Delaunay

“I think the interview form works best on the radio. There are a lot of personality traits conveyed in a person's voice, the rhythm of their speech or how confident they sound.”

Thinking Persons Form Sound Voice Personality Speech Radio Rhythm Interviews Traits Personality Traits

Author:Terry Gross

“I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.”

Feelings Film Rhythm

Author:Miranda July

“Hitchcock's got a very interesting voice; it's a very controlled, measured rhythm that's quite slow and, in that sense, also felt quite controlling in its pace. He retained something from his childhood, that London sound, as well as adopting some of the L.A. sounds... All of this helps you create the character.”

Wells Character Helping Felt Sound Voice Interesting Childhood London Rhythm Controlled Pace Very Interesting Adopting Hitchcock

Author:Toby Jones

“I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.”

Natural Rhythm

Author:Tom Jones

“I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.”

Kind Self Felt Solitude Rhythm Relief Pace Luxurious

Author:Caroline Knapp

“I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.”

Ifs Way I Can Walks Rhythm

Author:Bruce Forsyth

“My buddy Tim Bass he's a-workin' pumpin gas, and he makes two fifty for an hour. He's got rhythm in his hands as he's tappin' on the cans, sings rock and roll in the shower.”

Two Hands Hours Rocks Rhythm Fifty Gas Showers Rock And Roll Buddy Bass

Author:Jon Stewart

“Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.”

Way Sometimes Sound Track Rhythm Keyboards

Author:Aphex Twin

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