Tempo Quotes

Tempo Quote of the day

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.

People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.

Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo.

To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score.

I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

Things that Never Cross a Mans Mind is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and its a fun song.

Tempo ... now there's a big word.

A lot of times with my more up-tempo music, I try to take the approach of a hip-hop artist, but when it comes to imaging, I've been following the pattern of Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Madonna.

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo.

Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll.

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.