Best Tempo Quotes
82 Tempo quotes by 73 unique authors
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Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also…
— Richard Sennett
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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 something you feel…
— Roy Haynes
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant…
— Aberjhani
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I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the…
— Robert Goulet
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The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than…
— Brian Tracy
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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,…
— Dava Sobel
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At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.
— Nick Faldo
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When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call…
— Little Richard
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What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy…
— Unknown Author
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I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.
— Bessie Smith
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We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.
— Thomas Merton
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London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.
— David Byrne
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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…
— Jules Shear
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I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.
— Tennessee Ernie Ford
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The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.
— Richard Wagner
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Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today…
— Carlo Petrini
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I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.
— Eugene Ormandy
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Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.
— Eugene Ormandy
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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…
— Iggy Azalea
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I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial…
— Booboo Stewart
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Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp…
— Johnny Ramone
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It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
— Anton Seidl
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No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with…
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
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