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I'd say the music influences the writing - the music and rhythm of the prose - much more than the writing influences the music. — Rob Roberge

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

I tend to hear rhythm and melody, chord-progressions, long before I hear words. — Zach Condon

Here were we, drawn together by mutual rage and the impulse toward cooperation, led off into forgetfulness by the establishment of a rude rhythm. — Jack London

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 life
resumes. — 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

The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies. — Aldous Huxley

I set my own rhythm and it was usually a little faster than other people's. — Ray Charles

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

Michael is the kind of guy who has rhythm; he has rock'n'roll in his soul, whether he really plays it or not. — Phil Lesh

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

The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues. — Mick Taylor

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

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans. — Fats Domino

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

The Righteous Brothers were purely rhythm and blues, black music. — Bill Medley

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

It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News. — Billy Joel

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

There's art in rhythm playing. Just find it. Make your own art. Find your place, and when it's your time to solo, it's your time to shine. — Ricky Skaggs

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

My work is basically images set to my particular voice. It's the way the images rhyme and the rhythm. It's a way of economical storytelling for me. — Frances Stark

Hit me with your rhythm stick, it's nice to be a lunatic. — Ian Dury

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

Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul. — Plato

I don't think of any sentence as a "one-liner", but I do pay attention to how people actually speak when they are being funny. Rhythm is key. — Lorrie Moore

There's something about the rhythm of walking, how, after about an hour and a half, the mind and body can't help getting in sync. — Bjork

Sometimes we just have to stop and feel the pulse of the Earth, the rhythm of the seasons and the internal voice that was once our childhood friend. — Fennel Hudson

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

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. — Jo Jones

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

Hypnotized

I 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

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't. — Ben Kingsley

Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom! — Christian Scott

I live in the energy and rhythm of the character. To some degree, that's true of every actor I've worked with. — Sean Penn

Order is repetition of units.
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm. — M.C. Escher

Dancing is creating a sculpture that is visible only for a moment. — Erol Ozan

There is rhythm in chaos - even within the cacophony of the mind. — Shaun M. Thomas

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. — Talib Kweli

By attuning your breathing, you can become one with the natural rhythm of life that flows through you all the time. — Ilchi Lee

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

A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots. — LeBron James

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that. — Steven Tyler

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

The rhythm of fraught footsteps and fervent heartbeat orchestrated a symphony of anticipation and dread. — Brian A. McBride

The rhythm of life is intricate but orderly, tenacious but fragile. To keep that in mind is to build the key to survival. — Shirley Hufstedler