#rhythms

Certain rhythms just have certain moods. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#just #moods #rhythms

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

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 spent my last year of high school in Latin America, and there's a edge of salsa under all of my rhythms. ↗

— Stephen Stills

#edge #high #high school #i #last

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals. ↗

— John Hartford

#circles #everything #happens #rhythms #spirals

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colors for those who see none. ↗

— Olivier Messiaen

#cities #colors #dwell #give #heard

Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#band #body #doing #garage #hear

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. ↗

— George Crumb

#broader #find #inevitably #insects #large

I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll. ↗

— Adrian Mitchell

#blues #hope #i #i love #jazz