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Kurt Cobain Musician, Singer-Songwriter
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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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Kanye West Rapper, Producer, Fashion Designer
Rhythm

"I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production."

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George Leonard Philosopher
Rhythm

"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."

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Plato Philosopher
Rhythm

"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."

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Joan Didion Author, Essayist
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"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."

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Patti Smith Musician
Rhythm

"The sea is greater than us - it has its rhythm, its art. It comes with our earliest memory, of respiration, breathing in and out."

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Edward Abbey Author, Environmentalist
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"If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally."

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