#rhythms

Certain rhythms just have certain moods. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#just #moods #rhythms

I continued studying by myself in the field of jazz with my own technique of improvisation, walking bass lines, rhythms, all kinds of stuff, which I created for myself. ↗

— Miroslav Vitous

#continued #created #field #i #improvisation

If there was no black man there would be no Rock'n'Roll. The beat, the rhythms of Africa are what created Rock'n'Roll and Jazz. ↗

— Ray Manzarek

#beat #black #created #jazz #man

So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms. ↗

— Ruggiero Ricci

#because #change #conductor #difficult #first

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. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#cracked #crude #dance #human #kettle

Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#although #experts #gospel #gospel music #i

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#cast #characters #going #had #hadn

Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#certain #characters #compare #feels #finding

Because I don't play guitar any more, African harmonies and rhythms have been an inspiration to me. I love the raw origin of the sound. It complements my voice and words naturally. ↗

— Cat Stevens

#any #because #been #guitar #harmonies

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#capacity #ideas #images #love #must