Quotes About Syncopation

#1. Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

Greg Thomas

#2. I hope to incorporate more variety of beats, more syncopation. It becomes very easy to play straight beats; straight rock is alluring.

Brian Chippendale

#3. I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

John Otto

#4. More or Less Love Poems #11:
No babe
We'd never
Swing together but
the syncopation
would be something wild

Diane Di Prima

#5. My occupation is syncopation. But, every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to.

Ringo Starr

#6. The voluptuous chords of the wedding march done in blasphemous syncopation issued in a delirious blend from the trombones and saxophones--and

F Scott Fitzgerald

#7. Onto Chastity Bjornsen's car radio came the drawling irreverent brass and subhip syncopation of a Herb Alpert arrangement, which Doc realized with growing horror was a cover of Ohio Express's "Yummy Yummy Yummy." He

Thomas Pynchon

#8. All life is a rhythm," she said as I sat up. "All death is a rhythm suspended, a syncopation before life
resumes.

Samuel R. Delany

#9. I donate heavily to the church and various churches in the Detroit community and food banks.

Aretha Franklin

#10. Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.

Lin Biao

#11. Everyone's allowed to be in love with the wrong person at some point. In fact, it's a mistake not to be.

Harriet Evans

#12. I want collaboration, but if they don't have a plan or their vision isn't clear, it's nerve-wracking. So, someone that's very sure of the vision is what you want, most of all.

Naomi Watts

#13. Cells, tissues, and organs do not question information sent by the nervous system. Rather, they respond with equal fervor to accurate life-affirming perceptions and to self-destructive misperceptions. Consequently, the nature of our perceptions greatly influences the fate of our lives.

Bruce H. Lipton

#14. I think punk rock, especially for me, was a big middle finger to this whole talent thing.

Mike Watt

#15. But the apples must have set off enough mines, causing debris to activate the others.

Suzanne Collins

#16. I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that - and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.

Martin McGuinness

#17. A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do good to them, it is not benevolence
it is atonement.

Albert Schweitzer

#18. The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

Ryan Tedder

#19. If I let another person's opinion matter then I was giving him control over me; I alone had complete control over my self-image.

Penny Reid

#20. You just try and do as much variation and as much difference and as much as possible, so you put yourself out there to try anything, really. As long as you feel you're going to get something out of the experience, it's all worth it.

Jim Sturgess

#21. The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

Khloe Kardashian

#22. I believe that beauty is a basic service.

Theaster Gates

#23. Down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.

Oscar Wilde