Quotes About Tempo

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

Songs should have an infectious melody and rhythm.

Pop songs are like a D.J. set crammed into three minutes.

The tempo of modern life is such that we are giving less and less time and thought to the matter of cooking and feeding . . . it is a pretty crazy life when one eats to work and does not work in order to eat.

Maybe that's why we did things so fast," said Jerrier Haddad, a managing engineer on the 701. "We didn't have schedules to slow us down.

Life is about timing.

For everything that moves, time passes more slowly.

Time has this way of slowing down and speeding up,depending on how it feels.

A writer who takes up journalism abandons the slow tempo of literature for a faster one and the change will do him harm. By degrees the flippancy of journalism will become a habit and the pleasure of being paid on the nail and more especially of being praised on the nail, grow indispensable.

There is time for everything.

I've probably listened to 'Try Me' by DeJ Loaf 500 times. It's a little slower than your typical strut BPM, but it still works.

I like to speed teams up. I don't like them to get in their rhythm.

Something like speed of play can be a big deal.

My music is just about that bounce and getting everybody moving.

When it comes down to dance, dance is about movement to music.

To move faster, pulse faster.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

I admire and respect those unique and positive individuals who can "age without aging." The number of times a heart beats is not as important as its tempo and rhythm.

The liberal spirit... has about it a refreshing common sense... It is even-tempered, and of even tempo...

...music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance...

When I started out, I preferred to watch my films without music, as its presence tends to mask the underlying pace of the film. I felt I could feel the rhythm of the film better without music to influence me.

I move at a pace that suits me.

When Heraclitus said that everything passes steadily along, he was not inciting us to make the best of the moment, an idea unseemly to his placid mind, but to pay attention to the pace of things. Each has its own rhythm: the nap of a dog, the procession of the equinoxes, the dances of Lydia, the majestically slow beat of the drums at Dodona, the swift runners at Olympia.

Or so Feynman argued: the philosophers themselves, he said, were always a tempo behind, like tourists moving in after the explorers have left.