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Quotes About Tempo

He slowed his pace as he came
~ James Patterson
Jimmy Baldwin was the creator of contemporary American speech even before Americans could dig that. He created it so we could speak to each other at unimaginable intensities of feeling, so we could make sense to each other at yet higher and higher tempos.
~ Amiri Baraka
The mathematics of rhythm are universal. They don't belong to any particular culture.
~ John McLaughlin
Whatever makes your head nod, that's want we want to give you.
~ Quavo
All syncopation means is accenting beats that you don't normally accent.
~ Dimebag Darrell
I don't think I handle the notes much differently from other pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, there is where the artistry lies!!
~ Artur Schnabel
I play more rhythmically than I do a lot of notes.
~ Bobby Keys
I'm not the fastest drummer in the world, but I'm very into dynamics and knowing that there's space in between the notes and you got to breathe.
~ John Densmore
When you use a metronome, you'll start to notice where the notes are falling, if they're on the beat, behind the beat, between the beat, and so on.
~ John Petrucci
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
~ Harold Rosenberg
One must work with time and not against it.
~ le guin ursula k iii
Mollywood movies are narrated at their own pace, unlike Telugu movies, which ought to be crisp.
~ Naga Chaitanya
Even when I teach my MMA classes in the gym, it's hard to teach what I do. It's more of state of flow, a state of feel. It's not a robotic thing like one, two, three, kick, one, two, three, switch, jab, cross. It's completely unorthodox. Everything is about rhythm, tempo and pace. It's a different style, man.
~ Aljamain Sterling
Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.
~ Darren Aronofsky
'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song.
~ Kellie Pickler
As much as a lot of my music is very R&B, there's a bounce to it that obviously makes it easier to perform live. It's upbeat and uptempo.
~ Ella Mai
There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.
~ Tim McGraw
It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.
~ Jim Carrey
You should want to run if you're a player, shouldn't you, on offense?
~ Ben Howland
I like the offense to flow.
~ Mike D'Antoni
I feel I am in love with you and it should be Spring. I want the sun throbbing on my head like chords of music. I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and bird-calls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine.
~ Patricia Highsmith
the most heroic symphony is a judicious combination of puffing, plucking, scraping, and beating.
~ Will Durant
Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.
~ William Dean Howells
cada homem é árbitro de suas próprias virtudes, mas homem algum deve prescrever o que é bom para outro homem; e eu: temporariamente; e ele: foi a palavra mais triste de todas, nada mais no mundo não é desespero até que seja tempo, nem mesmo o tempo, até que foi.
~ William Faulkner