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Quotes About Tempo

In general, those from outside the southern culture built a style around exaggerations of southern music, and missed the lonesome hillbilly and blues feel that was its core. In the quest for abandon, they also failed to understand that southern music is lazy music—at any tempo.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Craig D. Slovak
I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm.
~ Mark Romanek
Sometimes the messaging and story are right where they need to be, but the issue is in the performance and delivery of that story and that message. The melody, tone, dynamics and tempo can be everything in a delivery.
~ Loren Weisman
He gets through too late who goes too fast
~ Publilius Syrus
Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
~ W. H. Auden
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.
~ John Hiatt
The following questions and explorations will lead you to a better awareness of your body and your swing on the course. When you can play an entire hole swinging with 50 percent tempo, you'll begin to appreciate how many more options you have for your game.
~ Unknown
In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills.
~ Dean Koontz
If you have a drummer who alternates between fast and slow drumming, it can negatively affect the music.
~ Yasmine Hamdan
Listening to someone read aloud is very different from reading in silence. When you read, you can stop or skip sentences: you are the one who sets the pace. When someone else is reading, it is difficult to make your attention coincide with the tempo of his reading: the voice goes either too fast or too slow.
~ Italo Calvino
If a song is a living, breathing entity, you might think of the tempo as its gait—the rate at which it walks by—or its pulse—the rate at which the heart of the song is beating.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Music is organized sound.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
The basic elements of any sound are loudness, pitch, contour, duration (or rhythm), tempo, timbre, spatial location, and reverberation.
~ Daniel J. Levitin
Dear summer, slow the fu.. down!
~ Unknown
The swiftest despatch seems slow to desire.
~ Publilius Syrus
Parkour is not just linear. There are moments that are intense and some that are lesser, so you have to move from one to another, and that becomes the musicality of Parkour.
~ David Belle
Tinha um relógio grande assim na torre e eu queria me agarrar nos ponteiros, segurar as horas, por que é que o tempo não parava um pouco? Queria ficar lá dependurado, segurando o tempo.
~ Unknown
A thousand violins cloy very rapidly without percussion.
~ John Fowles
You might find it a restless, verdant, inconstant sight: the wind caresses, ruffles, disturbs the mass of leaves; each tree answers to the weather's ministrations at a slightly different tempo from its neighbour, bending and shuddering and tossing its branches, as if trying to get away from the air, from the very soil that nourishes
~ Maggie O'Farrell
It's like a life--so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
~ John Steinbeck
Cooper walked, slow and steady, four-four time in a world gone off measure.
~ Marcus Sakey
Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.
~ Eugene Ormandy
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.
~ Eugene Ormandy