Igor Stravinsky Quotes

I was a little worried that the familiarity would be a little weird, but I think for me everything is musical in my life. For me, timing is a rhythm.

It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.

Music and silence combine strongly because music is done with silence, and silence is full of music.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message.

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

Rhythm is God. I think, without rhythm, you can't create - there is no art.

The core of all the music I love is a good bass line and a good rhythm.

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.

Sound is more than just noise. Ordered sound is music. My life is music.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

As long as it's good music, that's what's important.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I have always had a certain rhythmic approach to my work.

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't.

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Music deals with time and timing. It's so magical, but when you get into it, every little sound and every little space between the sounds, it's critical, so critical. And if it's not there, it not only feels wrong, but it ruins things.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.