I’ve got my own style on the guitar, sure, and I play rhythm in a certain way, and I use certain inflections. People have said that to me, and I understand it.
A lot of the time I use slide tuning for rhythm parts. I play a lot of slide in regular tuning as well as open tunings. I’m still mad about slide, there are so many ways of progressing on it.
I think optimism springs from nature. I’m a gardener. Nature has taught me about rhythm, the essence of every art. With so much that is terrible, nature gives me pleasure.
When I retired in 2006, I stayed for a further two years in England. I stayed because I wanted to be in England without being a footballer, without the rhythm. I wanted to enjoy the city.
As an author, you think you know where the good parts and the bad parts are. And then you read to a group of children, and you learn when you’re boring them, and you hurry through those sections to get to the parts where they’re interested again. You start to get a sense of your story’s rhythm and flow.
I’ve always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.
Rhythm is something you either have or don’t have, but when you have it, you have it all over.
When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.
The good and bad are all tangled up together. American popular music is loved around the world because of its African rhythm. But that wouldn’t have happened if it wasn’t for slavery.
In my head, scenes are shot from certain angles; there are camera pans, all of that kind of stuff. Converting those visuals to comic format was mostly a matter of adapting them to the rhythm of paneling.
If you do live shows long enough as a comedian, you can still hear that rhythm of laughing. It’s ingrained in you, and it’s not something you can really teach somebody. It comes from doing hours and hours and hours and years and decades on stage, performing in front of live crowds.
Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
The great directors, I’ve learned, have a great sense of rhythm.
I also like to follow nature’s rhythm. In times or places, they have their own rhythm. So you cannot push it. So we must accept that as well. Wherever we’re born at this time, we just live it.
I think the most important thing about learning comedy is to start from who you are. If you begin the process by imitating what you perceive to be a comedy rhythm, you will get laughs sooner, but you will not be unique.
You can’t go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm.
I hated my early videos. I really did. I hated ‘The Rhythm.’ Hated it. It’s not my vibe to have lot of white people jumping on trampolines.
Though my poems are about evenly split between traditionally formal work that uses rhyme and meter and classical structure, and work that is freer, I feel that the music of language remains at the core of it all. Sound, rhythm, repetition, compression – these elements of my poetry are also elements of my prose.
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
The way one perceives a book and a film are totally different. You read a book in the privacy of your room. You are the boss; you set the pace and rhythm of your reading. In the movie house, you can’t do that.
There’s also a certain rhythm to the way Jews talk that might be funny.
We’ve learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage, you can lose one component and not necessarily lose the others. You can lose rhythm and retain pitch, for example, that kind of thing.
One of my big inspirations was Chuck Berry, and his playing was always about the rhythm and the lyrics. So I’ve always been that way in my playing, really.
When I write, I write everything from a rhythm point.
I love playing with language and the rhythm of language – for some reason, this seems so much easier for me to do when I get to make things up than when writing nonfiction.
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don’t belong to any particular culture.
If I’m trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.
I listened to birds and crickets, looking for the ways that rhythm appears most naturally in the world. I listened to the Smithsonian’s field recordings of pygmy choirs from Africa.
I grew up with a piano, and my aunt taught me chords. I played with bands in high school and I could do like, C chord, G chord, D chord; really simple, rhythm piano.
With my guys and with the way that we live out there, we work out a lot and try to eat right, but we try to basically keep it our own rhythm and our own world.
I’ve taken countless shots in my life, so you know the ones when you’re in rhythm, with a perfect release, and it’s on track, that it’s going in.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
When I started fundraising like me and leading like me, that’s when I really started to shine and find my own rhythm.
I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.
There’s no better way of getting yourself back into a rhythm and back into game shape than playing a game. You can’t really mimic that in practice.
Whether I’m performing or directing, I’m aways thinking about rhythm; sometimes it’s nailing the right rhythm, and sometimes it’s intentionally breaking the rhythm. Those two things are what make something funny or not. How long a shot is and where you put the camera are all part of that rhythm of directing.
I have a West Coast rhythm section and a New York rhythm section. I’ve got them spread out all over the place.
As a musician, I don’t think I’m the greatest guitar player. I’m a bigger fan of the drums than I am the guitar; I just happen to play guitar. I play drums almost every day at my house. I wrote a lot of songs behind the drum kit, just having the music and vocals in my head and playing the rhythm.
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I’ll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
There’s a charm, there’s a rhythm, there’s a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, ‘You’re doing a Jewish act.’
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.
You need to tune into a different way of being funny for kids. They’re learning the rhythm of a joke.
Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.
Apart from a few simple principles, the sound and rhythm of English prose seem to me matters where both writers and readers should trust not so much to rules as to their ears.
When you’ve got a quarterback’s rhythm in the game, you can be a pretty deadly pass rusher.
Archer has a loose-limbed approach in a run-up that is not very long. He gets into a good position at the crease and releases the ball late from a very high action. He snaps the ball down at genuine pace. He has rhythm to his bowling.
I know a little bit how it is coming back from an injury, trying to find your rhythm.
I took several years of dance lessons that included ballet, tap and jazz. They helped a great deal with body control, balance, a sense of rhythm, and timing.
Rap is the pulsation given by some, usually an electronic rhythm section, without any tonality, and you have someone reading high-school poetry.
The truth is, I’ve been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.
Now, juggling can be a lot of fun; play with skill and play with space, play with rhythm.
As a writer, I can’t really take days off. Writing is like creating an art. Once you stop writing, you can lose your rhythm and context, meaning that your writing may lose its power.
Sky and clouds and trees and little figures relaxing in the perfect rural rhythm of their surroundings: these are the staples of a Gainsborough landscape.
When you’re playing spot minutes, it’s harder to hit those shots. But if you’re getting volume shots, now it’s a lot easier to get a rhythm.
I’m a rhythm player. I need to set people up, I need to be in the flow of the game.
I’m more into beats than rhymes. I’m a huge fan of anything touched by the Neptunes. Dancing is kind of my thing. I go out with my friends as often as I can on the weekends, and I’m always drawn to girls with rhythm.
Part of being an actor is the rhythm of the life of being an actor, and that involves coming together with a group of people, making something together that is intense and requires a lot of intimacy, and then walking away from it with the possibility that you will never see any of those people again.
