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Quotes About Tempo

London had always had this trick of living in two time signatures at once - the urgent and the always - each in earshot of the other.
~ Chris Cleave
I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.
~ Heinrich Neuhaus
still often try to maintain a deeply cogitative silence about the unprecedented tempo of Russia's industrial development, or confine themselves to remarks about an extreme "exploitation of the peasantry." They are missing a wonderful opportunity to explain why the brutal exploitation of the peasants in China, for instance, or Japan, or India, never produced an industrial tempo remotely approaching that of the Soviet Union.
~ Leon Trotsky
Technically, the song's a mess. It follows no known conventional nor commercial formula. It is just a string of dreams, flashbacks, flash-forwards, vignettes, completely disjointed ideas. It changes sequence, color, tone, tempo, all for no apparent reason—which is exactly what opera does.
~ Lesley-Ann Jones
Sorumluluk, denetleme, sansür ve kendi kendini cayd?rma olay? her zaman için sahip olunan güç ve silahlardan daha h?zl? bir tempoda geliÅŸmektedir. Zaten toplumsal düzenin s?rr? da burada yatmaktad?r.
~ Jean Baudrillard
One must work with time and not against it.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
I do pauses, pauses work for me
~ Dylan Moran
A scene has to have a rhythm of its own, a structure of its own.
~ Michelangelo Antonioni
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
~ Ruggiero Ricci
Not all speed is movement.
~ Toni Cade Bambara
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.
~ Booboo Stewart
At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
~ Mos Def
The art of not playing in tempo--one has to learn it. And the art of not playing what is written on the printed paper.
~ Pablo Casals
If a passage occurs twice it is played slower the second time; if three times, still slower.
~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A música é o silêncio entre as notas. — CLAUDE DEBUSSY
~ Liane Moriarty
Personally, I like records that are very varied in sound. Not just like, 'Oh, here's 12 super heavy tracks,' and they're all the same tempo.
~ John 5
I wanted to change up the tempo and setting of my comics in the sense of giving them some variety, for one thing. So where, for 'Slump,' the art was very America-esque, in the case of 'Dragon Ball,' I made it as Chinese as could be.
~ Akira Toriyama
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.
~ Mike McCurry
Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical.
~ Diane Paulus
Rhythm is what we beat our feet to. It is "the time relationship between tunes.
~ Unknown
Timing. It's about timing.
~ David Gerrold
He wishes that time was a matter of choice. That you could live your life controlling the metronome __ speed it up sometimes, but mostly slow it down.
~ David Levithan
Only a matter of timing.
~ Unknown
if Rose had set aside his musicianship he would have heard something strangely compelling in Hank's treatment of "Lovesick Blues." The brisk tempo and unusual structure, together with the yodels and little flashes of falsetto, made it wholly unlike any other country record.
~ Unknown