Michael W. Young Quotes

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

I left my rhythm back in Denver.

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.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over.

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

I'm definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in a certain way to compliment the music. We have to work hand in hand, the dancer and the music.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

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

I can't dance.

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

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.

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.

My body doesn't have any rhythm, you know. I've got quite good rhythm when I'm singing but my feet are very much two left feet.

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.

I skate to anything with a good beat, anything that can get me motivated.

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.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.

He who cannot dance puts the blame on the floor.

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.

The more rocking, the better.

All the time, I play with a rhythm; if I'm too far out of the rhythm, I feel out of place.