Quotes About Tempo

for all its apparent speed, the ship was almost perfectly silent, and he experienced an enervating, eerie feeling, as though the ancient warship, mothballed all those centuries, had somehow not yet fully woken up, and events within its sleek hull still moved to another, slower tempo, made half of dreams.

I've got a good first step and things of that nature. So it's just about using your body to make the defense play at your tempo and react to you.

It is much the best way... to lay the emphasis on the first part of the bar in triple time, and on the first and third parts of the bar in common time.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.

There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

So I think that life is sort of like a drumbeat. It has a rhythm and sometimes it's fast and sometimes it's slower, and maybe what's happening is this drumbeat is just accelerating and it's gotten to the point where I can't hear between the beats anymore and it's just a hum.

By accelerating the process of the growth of metals, the metallurgist was precipitating temporal growth: geological tempo was by him changed to living tempo. This bold conception, whereby man defends his full responsibility vis-a-vis Nature, already gives us a glimpse of something of the work of the alchemist.

was just about to invite you to dance," came the unexpected reply. The orchestra was switching tempos and Nancy nodded. She followed the stranger to the center of the floor where several other couples were trying unsuccessfully to keep from bumping into each other. "I don't know your name," the young detective said as the two began to dance.

Unless you're singing something that's kind of in rhythm with the bass, the melodies, it's just difficult.

Oui, lorsqu'on surveille le temps, il passe très lentement. J'aime beaucoup la température, quatre fois par jour, parce que, à ce moment, on se rend vraiment compte de ce que c'est en réalité qu'une minute ou même sept minutes, alors que des sept jours d'une semaine, on ne fait ici aucun cas, ce qui est affreux.

Ah, mas tudo bem. Com o tempo, todo mundo se acostuma. As pessoas esquecem umas das outras com tanta facilidade. Como é mesmo que minha mãe dizia? Quem não é visto, não é lembrado. Longe dos olhos, longe do coração. Pois é.

Mostly, they are deceptive sweetenings of existence, like speedier communications which unpleasantly accelerate the tempo of life and leave us with less time than ever before. Omnis festinatio ex parte diaboli est—all haste is of the devil, as the old masters used to say.

Instead, it should be based on the tempo of how quickly the bottleneck resource can consume the work.

we are starting to master the First Way: We're curbing the handoffs of defects to downstream work centers, managing the flow of work, setting the tempo by our constraints, and, based on our results from audit and from Dick, we're understanding better than we ever have what is important versus what is not.

It occurred to me as scandalous that Palmer and Antonia, after the scene in which I had taken part in the drawing-room, should have gone out to the opera. Antonia ought to have been waiting for me to come back. I resented this indifference to the tempo of my own drama.

that little bit between each note — silences which give the form

There are times where you're in the zone and everything moves in slow motion, and there's sometimes when everything goes really fast and you have to slow yourself down.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

Little things that I've emphasized are turning in pockets and looking to penetrate and finding these spaces and playing at a good tempo when we're in the middle third.

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move.