Tempo Quotes

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

— Eddie Floyd

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

— Barry Venison

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

— Eugene Ormandy

I like New York because of the fast tempo there.

— Joey Heatherton

“il tempo guarisce tutti i mali.”

— J.M. Darhower

“Eu a amo, mas não posso voltar no tempo.”

— Nina LaCour

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

— Eugene Ormandy

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

— David Byrne

I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

— Miles Davis

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

— Jordan Knight

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

— Nick Faldo

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

— Little Richard

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

— Miles Davis

“Dois dedos de prosa Um acidente Palavras censuradas no tempo.”

— Valter Bitencourt Júnior

“O tempo escorre entre a diferença de dois ciclos distintos.”

— Filipe Russo

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

— Paul Gilbert

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played…

— Little Richard

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new…

— Aberjhani

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a…

— Travis Barker

There was no let-up. The tempo was always moderate but steady. If a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that's…

— John L. Parker Jr

You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as…

— Wilfrid Sheed

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time…

— Dante Alighieri

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

— Cornel West

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is…

— Alison Moyet

The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends…

— Johan Cruijff

I would describe my style for those who haven't listened to my music as definitely..up-tempo. I try to have something nice, something…

— Kid Ink

If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try…

— Chris Isaak

The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism.…

— Ursula Goodenough

Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to…

— Man Ray

I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college.…

— Lin-Manuel Miranda

Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify…

— Richard Sennett

I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually…

— Michael Giles

When you're really bummed out, the last thing you want to hear is up-tempo and positive. And it lets you know that…

— Steve Earle

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's…

— Roy Haynes

“Mas o tempo… o tempo primeiro fixa-nos e depois confunde-nos. Pensávamos que estávamos a ser adultos quando estávamos só a ser prudentes.…

— Julian Barnes

I was off the scene for a while during the ska period and when I returned and joined the Treasure Isle studio,…

— Alton Ellis

You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different…

— Jens Lehmann

I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering…

— Heinrich Neuhaus

“O tempo revela a verdade.”

— Séneca