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82 Tempo quotes by 73 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69. — Eugene Ormandy
Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together. — Nick Faldo
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
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
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo. — Bessie Smith
We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen. — Thomas Merton
London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute. — David Byrne
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
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that. — Tennessee Ernie Ford
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner
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
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo. — Eugene Ormandy
Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't. — Eugene Ormandy
Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush. — Eugene Ormandy
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
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
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
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. — Anton Seidl
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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