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The heart of a music is its rhythm. The heart of rhythm section music is the rhythm.


Wynton Marsalis

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SOURCE UNKNOWN The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaieties, and its announced end, followed the...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous sy...
GEORGE CRUMB Your heart beats a rhythm I just can't stop dancing to.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The p...
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SUSAN DEBORAH The relationship found its rhythm. He began to rely on me for ideas of where music could express ide...
GILBERT LEVINE Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
RAINN WILSON When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure...
AMIT RAY I tend to think of the organ as part of the rhythm section, rather than a frontline voice.
ALAN PRICE To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhy...
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MARCEL PROUST I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw...
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JULIANNE MOORE YOU are the light shining the way on my road of life... And the rhythm behind the beat of my heart.
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CHARLES KENNEDY I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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LARRY NEAL The truth is in the rhythm.
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NORM TOMLINSON I'm a coward when it comes to matters of the heart. That is my fatal flaw.
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SARVESH JAIN Love moves in sync with the cadence of forgiveness, sings in tune with the melody of acceptance, and...
STEVE MARABOLI We didn't play our game ... and that took us out of our rhythm. We're a rhythm and finesse team, and...
DAVE STOCKWELL Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.
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PETE SEEGER Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibr...
SOPHIE HAWLEY-WELD Vision is the true creative rhythm.
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JENNIFER SODINI A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
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GAIL CARSON LEVINE The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances i...
RABINDRANATH TAGORE We start our lives with blues . . . with music. It's our first language. It's the rhythm of the womb...
DAVID MUTTI CLARK Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I...
JIMI HENDRIX Somewhere along the line the rhythms and tonalities of music elided in my brain with the sounds that...
E. L. DOCTOROW Our repertoire consisted of rhythm and blues, sort of country rhythm and blues, Sonny Terry things.
RAY DAVIES From the spiritual came the blues, gospel, and rhythm-and-blues. I heard all of that music growing u...
KATHLEEN BATTLE Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes co...
YEHUDI MENUHIN Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes co...
YEHUDI MENUHIN If you move faster than the music, it will look strange; if you move slower than the music, it will ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Everybody has to have a rhythm. (Arenas) does the same thing.
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JIM GENOVESE No matter what kind of music you're into, you need rhythm. And it's good to expose people to as much...
ERIC GINSBERG I slow down when hiking. The rhythm of nature is more leisurely. The sun comes up, it moves across t...
JOHN MACKEY Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what...
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KENNETH MUKAMAL ...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will mak...
MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.
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YO-YO MA I had the house rhythm section at a club called the Sundown in Hartford. Stan Getz came up and playe...
HORACE SILVER Only man is permitted to live without rhythm in order that he can become free. However, he must of h...
RUDOLF STEINER It's more than a rhythm. It's more than a dance. It's more than music. It's step…it's making beats ...
LINETTE JOHNSON Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you h...
EDDIE VAN HALEN I grew up with The Beatles, Bob Marley and Talking Heads. I like the melody-with-rhythm aspect of mu...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's ...
MICKEY HART Sometimes the heart is so heavy that we turn away from it and forget that its throbbing is the wises...
MICHAEL JACKSON The music in Haiti is all tied up in voodoo and African rhythm, and so there's this funny thing:...
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