Quotes About Tempo

Time marches on

Balance: a dance with how and when.

Recognizing that non-dotted notes are divisible by two and that dotted notes are divisible by three is very important to understanding rhythm.

His psychological and internal rhythm was not that of the Revolution but of the countryside, the tempo of the ranches, made up of cycles and fatality

Podemos afirmar que não havia relógios na cozinha medieval e no princípio dos tempos modernos, dado que as receitas indicam os tempos não em minutos, mas em orações.

Anything with a beat is meat,

Western ears have a hard time hearing anything that isn't in four-four time. A lot of cultures experience music in five-eight, for example, five-four.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

I just think swing is a matter of some good things put together that you can really pat your foot by. I can't define it beyond that.

Sometimes anxiety did that—it could slow you down or speed you up.

As a general principle, the pacing of a level in any game, especially a game with physical challenges, should alternate between fast and slow periods, just as the tempo of movements in a symphony or the levels of excitement in an action movie vary. Players need moments to rest, both physically and mentally, and on the whole, the faster the pace of the level, the more important rest becomes.

Pleasure exists in middle time, in time that is neither too accelerated or too slowed down.

Everything I do got that bounce to it, that addictive, repetitive sound.

I love going into the studio with just an idea of the direction. Like, I want this tempo... I love to start from scratch, and the tracks sort of take on a life of their own.

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

Being slow or swift, has its own price.

Music has to deal with silence. Music has to deal with time.

I like to have space between the notes. I like to use silence.

I love percussive instrumentation.

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

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 arts.

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

To keep on going, you have to keep up the rhythm.

Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.