#rhythms

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Composers in the old days used to keep strictly to the base of the theme, as their real subject. Beethoven varies the melody, harmony and rhythms so beautifully.


Johannes Brahms


#beautifully #beethoven #composers #days #harmony

I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.


Shelby Foote


#incidentally #including #interesting #into #lot

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.


Stanley Crouch


#aesthetic #besides #comes #elements #fall

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born.


Daisaku Ikeda


#arise #between #born #breathe #cosmos

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

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

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.


Karlheinz Stockhausen


#body #breathing #heartbeat #identify #repetition

To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.


Gary Lucas


#i #i do #idioms #make #rhythms

I first heard African drum rhythms and chants at the movies. Then, when I had the opportunity to go to Africa and visit the villages, I heard the real, raw, true rhythms and realised the origins of the old Negro spirituals I grew up with in the South.


Isaac Hayes


#african #drum #first #go #grew

The tunes, rhythms, and messages are drawn mainly from secular culture.


Richard Morris


#drawn #mainly #messages #rhythms #secular