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Quotes About Tempo

We definitely were a punk band. When we got in with our producer, Richard Gottehrer, he slowed everything down so that you could actually hear what Belinda was singing.
~ Gina Schock
I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.
~ Thomston
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
~ Bob Dylan
He had been working at a furious tempo and had just come off of a hellacious operation in Syria.
~ Brad Thor
Festina lente may well be his motto
~ Bram Stocker
A jazz beat is a dynamic changing rhythm.
~ Ken Burns
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.
~ Nina Kuscsik
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.
~ Steve Martin
I used to slap my hip to keep a beat.
~ Joe Cocker
I don't think I make dance music. It's not even 4/4. And it's slow.
~ Flume
To be able to play as slow as Al Jackson is almost impossible.
~ Charlie Watts
In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.
~ Roberto Mancini
I love slow music.
~ Norah Jones
When I've been playing my best golf, I feel like everything's so slow.
~ Jason Day
Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet - but the arm had to do something large against this - and this set up a kind of opposition.
~ Merce Cunningham
For my shows, I don't play too many slow songs.
~ Jon Pardi
Even when we're keeping possession, I don't want to see the ball move slowly. What does that mean? When we pass it, we pass it with purpose.
~ Angelos Postecoglou
When you have the smaller guards - whether it be 6 feet, 6-2, 6-1, or under - they're the most energetic, and they set the pace, whether it be shoot-around, practice, and in the game.
~ Chris Mullin
Chi non ha mai fretta trova il tempo per tutto.
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
When music plays, we hear the melody, forgetting that it is only one of the modes of time; when the orchestra falls silent, we hear time; time itself.
~ Milan Kundera
In this book time thus flows in a tempo opposite that of real life: the tempo slows down as the years go by.
~ Milan Kundera
I measure time by how a body sways.)
~ Theodore Roethke
Rhythm is regulating.
~ Bruce D. Perry
Observe due measure, for timing is in all things the most important factor.
~ Hesiod