Kathy Acker 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.

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

For me writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz.

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

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

There's such a huge difference between a great arrangement of riffs and a song. Sometimes the two can be the same. But the difference is a song doesn't necessarily need a riff, whereas a riff doesn't necessarily mean you've got a good song on your hands.

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

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

Because if you've got the wit, you can make anything into a melody, ultimately.

Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.

The best way to express rhythm is music.

Music is math; music is spiritual.

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

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

Great melody over great riffs is, to me, the secret of it all.

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.

Timing has a lot to with art.

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise.

For me, music is all about emotion and attitude.

Music is the silence between the notes.

Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.

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

Music, not sex, got me aroused.

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

To me, playing an instrument and singing, all of these different things are just as natural to me as rhyming.