Rhythm'n'blues Quotes
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Rhythm'n'blues Quotes & Sayings
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Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
— Vernon Duke
We who are beyond the mortal world see many things from the edges; we hear the subtle shifts of rhythm in the beat of a blackening heart.
— Emmanuelle De Maupassant
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
— Roland Barthes
Wherever you find a sentence musically worded, of true rhythm and melody in the words, there is something deep and good in the meaning also.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Each human personality is like a piece of music, having an individual tone and a rhythm of its own.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You're not a rock n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.
— Patti Smith
Get rhythm when you get the blues.
— Johnny Cash
Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
I'm crazy about James Brown. I'm crazy about soul music. And then the blues. Rhythm and blues.
— Bill Nighy
Climb up the ladder one step at a time, moving gracefully to the rhythm of your own heart.- from the essay, On The Side of Time, Amazed. — Joanne Crisner Alcayaga
All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before liferesumes. — Samuel R. Delany
It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.
— Isadora Duncan
My ego only needs a good rhythm section
— Miles Davis
Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.
— Maya Angelou
The beauty of a Tarantino film is that the visuals match the rhythm of the words. That's his goal. And that's my goal.
— Robert Richardson
There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything
— Bonnie Raitt
I never would have thought of that word, "hospitality." I settle into the rhythm of my steps.
— Paul Auster
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space.
— Piet Mondrian
I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.
— Philippe Claudel
he settled down in his favorite armchair and read. Soon he was lost to all else but the rhythm of the words talking to him across the centuries.
— William Meikle
There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.
— Madeleine L'Engle
I'm inspired by anyone who's honest in their own expression, people who truly beat to the rhythm of their own drum.
— Gillian Zinser
I think it is interesting to think about the absolute animal relish young people have for rhythm and rhyme.
— Andrew Motion
Type has rhythm, just like music.
— Simon Garfield
I LOVE, THE MELODY IN YOUR VOICE, THE SOUND OF YOUR LAUGHTER, THE RHYTHM OF YOUR WAYS, THE BEATING OF YOUR HEART. YOU, ARE MUSIC TO ME. Romantic
— John M. Ortiz
What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.
— Philip Glass
Sam Rockwell has a fantastic sense of rhythm
— Duncan Jones
On sunny days of summer, I am indeed the butterfly;
And like the ancient drummer,
I rhythm straight towards the sky ... — Stephan Attia
One should always act from one's inner sense of rhythm.
— Rosamond Lehmann
The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just any words, but, if you can, into rhythm and blues.
— Anne Lamott
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
— Ray Charles
It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues ... It's called rock now.
— Chuck Berry
I grew up on the precursors to rock and roll, rhythm and blues.
— Bobbie Ann Mason
When I came to The Moody Blues, we were a rhythm and blues band. I was lousy at rhythm and blues - I think the rest of us were.
— Justin Hayward
I came from a family where my people didn't like rhythm and blues. Bing Crosby - "Pennies from Heaven" - Ella Fitzgerald, was all I heard.
— Little Richard
I haven't sold my soul yet - well, maybe a couple bars of rhythm and blues here and there,
— Thomas Pynchon
Language was a code, like numbers, he said, and depended just as much on rhythm for its power
— Blue Balliett
The rhythm persisted, the unfaltering common meter of blues, but the blueness itself, the sorrow, the despair, began to give way to hope.
— Rudolph Fisher
Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
— Ray Davies
We start our lives with blues ... with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb. It's your mama's heartbeat inside your head.
— David Mutti Clark
Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound.
— Richard D. James
Reality has a pulse, a rhythm, for lack of better words.
— Scott Adams
She rose with the grace that was inherent to her every move ... Perhaps she did everything to a rhythm only she could hear.
— Eloisa James
When the rhythm and night ride, no heart can hide.
— Steve Winwood
Sophie marched away in rhythm to her new chant, not in the butt - not in the butt - not in the butt.
— Christopher Moore
I think we lost something else when we lost that crisp rhythm, some general shared belief that we could count on certain things.
— Karen Thompson Walker
The connections between them were like an atonal composition, no key, no rhythm, no form.
— B.V. Lawson
I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words.
— Steve Martin
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
— Patti Smith
To attain peace, what one has to do is to seek that rhythm which is in the depth of our being.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.
— William Stafford
My feet were keeping in time with the music, but my heart was pounding out a different rhythm altogether.
— Renee Conoulty
The rhythm of the ride carried them on and on, and she knew that the horse was as eager as she, as much in love with the speed and air and freedom.
— Georgess McHargue
We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.
— Carolee Dean
Both precious and absurd, this tightrope of existence we walk in both directions; strung only on a rhythm of heartbeats across a void
— Dean Cavanagh
She closed her eyes, listening to the sound of his heartbeat. She always found its rhythm comforting.
— Sylvain Reynard
A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.
— Stephan Pastis
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses
— Edith Wharton
HypnotizedI am hypnotized
Sleepwalking to the rhythm of your words,
Never wishing to wake- — Michael Faudet
Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
— John Frusciante
Rhythm When you reach for me, reach with love. I vow to return your extension with open arms and a dancing heart.
— Alexandra Elle
Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
— Christian Scott
There is rhythm in chaos - even within the cacophony of the mind.
— Shaun M. Thomas
When we started I wasn't the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
— Robert Smith
And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.
— Jenna Elfman
You only need to move your body to the rhythm of the music.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
— Bradford Cox
It is the silence between sounds that create Rhythm.
— Nelly Mazloum
I'm not graceful either. I have no rhythm, I'm never on top.
— Chelsea Handler
Yet accurate speech about anything, and especially about God, is in fact a rhythm of silence and speech, speaking and listening.
— Ellen F. Davis
