Karlheinz Stockhausen 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.

We were built to be rhythmic.

I like to stay in the rhythm of things.

Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are.

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.

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

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.

When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.

Timing is so important! If you are going to be successful in dance, you must be able to respond to rhythm and timing. It's the same in the Spirit. People who don't understand God's timing can become spiritually spastic, trying to make the right things happen at the wrong time. They don't get His rhythm - and everyone can tell they are out of step. They birth things prematurely, threatening the very lives of their God-given dreams.

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.

Rhythm is the pulse of music.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

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.

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.

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.

Running is very rhythmic, and I have written a lot of lyrics while out running. It's a very musical exercise, and sometimes I like to sing when I run. Your whole body is doing the same thing.

I left my rhythm back in Denver.

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that's in rhythm or you're in trouble.

The only way a drum machine will get out of beat is for you not to pay your electric bill.

Anyone who breathes is in the rhythm business.

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

Everything moves, and everything moves to a rhythm. And everything that moves to a rhythm creates a sound. At this moment, the same thing is happening here and everywhere else in the world.

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