"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."
"Words on a page can hypnotize you if the rhythm is right"
"I look at melody as rhythm."
"I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production."
"At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us."
"Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."
"For when there are no words, it is very difficult to recognize the meaning of the harmony and rhythm, or to see any worldly object is imitated by them."
"Harmonising your biological rhythms with the rhythms of nature minimises entropy and reverses aging."
"The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk."
"When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm."
"Read it aloud to yourself because that's the only way to be sure the rhythms of the sentences are OK."
"To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm."
"Mankind has got to get back to the rhythm of the cosmos."
"The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out."
"I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm."
"If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally."
"Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos."
"Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt."
"I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the words."