Nikos Kazantzakis
Novelist, Playwright
"As I watched the seagulls, I thought, That's the road to take; find the absolute rhythm and follow it with absolute trust."
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Rhythm
155 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Les Paul
Musician
"You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm."
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Spiritual Leader
"Every emotion is connected with the breath. If you change the breath, change the rhythm, you can change the emotion."
Elvis Presley
Singer, Actor
"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."
Miles Davis
Musician
"My ego only needs a good rhythm section"
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"In silence one can receive more because all one's activities become concentrated at one point. There is only one real rhythm; in silence you hear it. When you live to the rhythm of this silence, you become it, slowly; everything you do, you do to it."
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"Music then is simply the result of the effects of Love on rhythm and harmony."
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"A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own."
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"If there is always light, you don’t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness."
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"Get rhythm when you get the blues."
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"I know noble accents And lucid, inescapable rhythms; But I know, too, That the blackbird is involved In what I know."
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"Rhythm is form cut into time."
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"It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear."
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"The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm."
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"Rhythm must have meaning."
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"I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot."
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"I have exactly as much rhythm as you think I have."
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"The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person."
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"You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm."
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"His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it."
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"I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar - hide in the back and just play."
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"Certain rhythms just have certain moods."
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"Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right"
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"I look at melody as rhythm."
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"I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production."
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