Virginia Woolf Quotes

Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.

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

Melody has a certain way that it projects back to you. It triggers certain nerves in your body and certain instincts that normally wouldn't be triggered by a normal voice.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

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.

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

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

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

The sense of flowing, which is so crucial to song, is also crucial to poetry.

Rhythm and sounds are born with syllables.

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

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 is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

I am very emotionally affected by sound. Sounds are the inexplicable... There is a sound you hear in your head, it's your nerves, or your blood running.

I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.

The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

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.

People respond to something melodic.

There's more to music than just words over tracks.

Music can inspire immediate emotional reactions, even if the only person who hears it is the person creating it.

I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

Music. Close your eyes and it's a rosebush blooming in time lapse so that it shoots and blossoms flow outward in a swift choreography of growth and collapse, twine and coil, release and fade. Close your eyes and music paints light vines and calligraphy on the darkness within you.

Music, I think, he makes me feel like music

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.