“A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound...a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.” WayCertainForceSoundEffectsProduceLettersJewRhythmRepresentativesCompellingDefiniteSequenceMantras Author:Sir John Woodroffe
“When I'm working, I'm so narrowly focused on sound, language, rhythm, flow, that I rarely feel the emotion of the text. It's only after - long after - I've finished a piece that I can experience in any way its emotional charge.” WayFeelsLongI CanLanguageSoundEmotionPiecesEmotionalFlowFocusedFinishedRhythm Author:Taiye Selasi
“I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.” WorldWholeDreamSoundInstrumentsRhythmContributionNew WorldMy ThoughtsObedientFuturist Author:Edgard Varese
“Music is the most abstract of the arts and it expresses the sound of the universe itself. These are the real rhythms that stimulate the artist's mind and guide his hand.” MindArtRealHandsArtistUniverseSoundMusicMusic IsGuidesRhythmAbstract Author:Robert Genn
“It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.” IfsShouldMadeSeemsFeltSoundTreeColorListeningWalkingRhythmComposer Author:Charles E. Burchfield
“Each celestial body, in fact each and every atom, produces a particular sound on account of its movement, its rhythm or vibration. All these sounds and vibrations form a universal harmony in which each element, while having it’s own function and character, contributes to the whole.” WholeCharacterFactsBodyFormSoundMovementProduceParticularElementsUniversalAccountsFunctionHarmonyRhythmAtomsVibrationsCelestialCelestial Bodies Author:Pythagoras
“Strangers have crossed the sound, but not the sound of the dark oarsmen Or the golden-haired sons of kings, Strangers whose thought is not formed to the cadence of waves, Rhythm of the sickle, oar and milking pail” SoundDarkSonKingsWaveStrangerGoldenRhythmCadenceOar Book:Selected poems Source: Selected poems
“I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.” TogetherRememberSoundHeardShapesBunchRhythmStrings Author:Frank Loesser
“Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big waters alone, although some friends think I shouldn't. Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise.” ThinkingSoulBigsLightCoursesSoundWaterMemoriesExistenceHalfFourSeaSummerRiversWesternFishesBoatRhythmMy SoulEveningLakesFishingLengthFadesFishermanMontanaArcticCanyonsFly FishingSummer DaysRivers And Water Book:A River Runs Through It Source: A River Runs Through It
“Spanish and English have such different music, and in my own poetry I feel much less drawn to fluid sounds than I do toward the hard sounds and rhythms that come out of the Anglo-Saxon roots of English.” FeelsDifferentHardSoundMy OwnRootsRhythmFluidAnglo SaxonDifferent MusicSpanish And English Author:Joan Larkin
“Rhythms and sounds are often the first thing I hear and want in a poem, so I can't imagine trying to translate something without at least being able to hear what it sounds like.” WantTryingFirstsI CanAbleSoundImagineRhythmTranslate Author:Joan Larkin
“There are a lot of similarities between music and surfing. There's a rhythm to both of them and with sound waves and ocean waves, you see patterns, plus the breathing is all part of it.” SoundOceanWavePatternsRhythmBreathingPlusSurfingSimilarityOcean WaveSound Waves Author:Jon Foreman
“One of the primary differences for me between fiction and poetry is that fiction uses every sort of tool that poetry does but hides it much, much more. Fiction doesn't necessarily reveal what it's doing with rhythm and sound and patterning.” DoeUseSoundDifferencesFictionToolsRhythmPrimariesPoetry Is Author:Brian Evenson
“Figure out whether or not you believe in yourself, and if you don't, find a way to. Because even more than you want it, you must believe it. And learn about yourself. The rhythm of one's spirit is just as important as what you look like or what you sound like. Who are you? What's your voice? What are you dying to contribute?” IfsWayWantBelieveLooksImportantSpiritSoundVoiceDyingFiguresRhythmBelieve In YourselfAbout YourselfBelieve In You Author:Chris Pratt
“I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.” WantWritingYearsMindPastSoundVoiceWeekMonthsBeatsInstrumentsRhythm Author:Nas
“The first thing that strikes you about Timothy Murphys verse is the palpable texture of his line - that sound of sense practised by that other American poet-farmer, Robert Frost. And just as Murphys ear is trained on the rhythms of local speech and classical epigram, his eye holds fast on the image. This is an undeluded vision, sometimes bleak, often funny, and never less than painstakingly crafted.” FirstsSometimesEyeSoundLinesVisionPoetSpeechEarsStrikesLocalsRhythmHis EyesFarmersVersesTextureFrostBleakEpigramsHold Fast Author:Michael Donaghy
“The script is like music to me. I approach it like it's a musical piece and I hear how it's supposed to sound when people say the words. There's rhythms and there's intonations and things, and so, when somebody comes in and hits the notes that I hear, I go okay. Or, they come close enough, and then I'll say "Well how about you try it like this?" and if they have a good ear and they can pick it up, then I think okay, they've got it.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingWellsEnoughSoundPiecesApproachPicksOkayEarsNotesMusicalScriptsRhythmIntonation Author:Rob Reiner
“What's holding me up is I'm confused about the nature of the music. Because the modern music doesn't reach me. I mean to say the sound of the modern electric production. A lot of sequencers... synths. That's what people are buying. Because that doesn't reach me, it throws me back to like 1948, but I don't want to be there. Back there, I'm talking about blues records... The roots of rock'n'roll is rhythm and blues and that's like really where I'm at, where I was always at.” PeopleWantMeanSoundTalkingRecordsModernRocksMusic IsRootsProductionsRhythmConfusedBuyingRock N RollElectricRhythm And BluesModern MusicI'm Confused Author:Joe Strummer
“Out of the rhythm and sound of the sea that beat through the orchestra, something moved--pressing toward death with quiet insistent joy--the thread through the maze--the soul behind the toil and the crime and longing.” SoulJoySoundBehindsSeaCrimeQuietBeatsMovedLongingRhythmThreadToilOrchestraMazes Author:Jeanette Lee
“Music forecasts the past, recalls the future. Now and then the difference falls away, and in one simple gift of circling sound, the ear solves the scrambled cryptogram. One abiding rhythm, present and always, and you're free. But a few measures more, and the cloak of time closes back around you.” PastFallSoundDifferencesSimpleEarsSolveRhythmNow And ThenRecallsAbidingCloaksForecasts Book:Orfeo Source: Orfeo