I was brought up a strict Christian. My father was a lay preacher, my mother a church warden. The rhythm and ritual of the Anglican Church was part of our lives.
Unless you’re singing something that’s kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it’s just difficult.
I’m not a cinephile. My films don’t reference films. I’m more interested in rhythm and feeling.
That’s that Dungeon Family ethos: being able to reinvent yourself, stand out and stand alone. Having your own character and having your own image, no matter what they say about you. I want to show my versatility and how diverse I am, how I approach the track, my rhythm, my melodies. It’s something different.
Tap dancing is all about the feet; you put your head down and don’t really engage with anything but the rhythm in your head.
I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.
I have some rhythm, but I definitely learned a lot from Jamal Sims and Spencer Henderson.
We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
I need the seasons to live to the rhythm of rain and sun.
The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it’s just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
Eventually, you know the rhythm of your character, of the set of the piece. It takes less energy for you to hit that point, and then everything resonates. But initially, it takes a tremendous amount of energy. You just hope it’s gonna be okay and you don’t forget your lines and those cameras.
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.
I knew I loved music, and I knew that I could feel music. So, I knew I had rhythm.
I know I can’t dance. I am the worst dancer. I have no rhythm. I just do step-and-snap. I love it in the privacy of my own home and every once in a while at a club. But singing and dancing are my two greatest fears.
I am not someone who does a lot of exercise, so I attempt to maintain some sort of rhythm, and I think the jump rope is the funnest way. It’s easy, you can do it in your room or anywhere.
First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.
When we started I wasn’t the singer. I was the drunk rhythm guitarist who wrote all these weird songs.
Once you are successful, there’s a very seductive rhythm at work that keeps you wanting to outdo yourself. By the end of ‘Spirit’ I felt like I didn’t want to get into that trap. It almost makes you cartoon-like.
As Jeopardy devotees know, if you’re trying to win on the show, the buzzer is all. On any given night, nearly all the contestants know nearly all the answers, so it’s just a matter of who masters buzzer rhythm the best.
There’s a rhythm to the legislative session and there are rhythms to legislative sessions. So I think that’s very important to take into consideration when you are deciding what to do when.
I never think about rhythm versus melody; I’ve always just played to what’s in my head.
Writing is so much about rhythm. If you’ve got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words.
There’s an easy way to tell if you have a good song. You get hit in the head with a message, and you get hit in the feet with a rhythm. You’re beaten up with music. It’s a beautiful thing when that happens.
I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones’ feeling, anyone’s feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.
If the rhythm or beat of the music changes with a live orchestra, you have to think on your feet. If you feel like you are not on your leg, you have to make a decision to make it look as though nothing is going wrong.
Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that’s what we are.
In the beginning, there was noise. Noise begat rhythm, and rhythm begat everything else.
