Urban Rhythm Quotes

I will say it's great - that Method Man - Cliff Smith - plays a rapper in a laundromat who is working out some lyrics sort of to the rhythm of a washing machine. And something about hip-hop culture and hip-hop is the ability to use current language and slang and reference details of life is very, very strong for me.

Cities are a melting pot for different ideas, and diversity brings a high-energy rhythm that I don't think we'd know was gone until it was too late.

New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.

I can't stand the slow pace of Jaipur anymore. I like staying in Mumbai, as everyone is on the move.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

I sit on the steps in the heat of the sun and listen as one by one these car alarms extinguish themselves until once more only the muted roar of the city is audible, and the city, bathed in sunlight, once again resumes dreaming its collective dream. Cars roll down the city's roads, plants grow from its soil, wealth is generated in its rooms, hope is created and lost and recreated in the minds and souls of its inhabitants, and the city continues its dream and searches for those ideas that will make it strong.

New York is great for busy creative types. The city has a pulse that races, and you either keep up with it or you leave.

Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.

Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

House is a big part of the rhythm in Chicago. I don't care if you're the most hood gangbanger - you understand house.

In New York, the drummers rush for a reason - because there's so much energy crackling through everything in that city and so many collisions at a highly accelerated rate.

Cities are like a bee hive. There is a hum to them. You can tell what is going on in the city from the hum.

There's something about urban life - you walk out your door, and you're in a steady of stream of life happening around you, and it's very easy to get caught up in that stream and simply kind of keep on moving.