Quotes About Tempo

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.

When we try to make things go faster, we usually slow things down. When

We thus see the artist performing a dual function: first, furthering the integrity of the process of self-expression in the language of art; and secondly, protecting the organic continuity of art in relation to its own laws. For like any organic substance, art must always be in a state of flux, the tempo being slow or fast. But it must move.

It has no rhythm, but it will because it's so much faster.

Without him here, it is impossible to know how fast he will play it, approximately.

I conduct faster so you can see my beat.

The nature of the contrapuntal experience is that every note has to have a past and a future on the horizontal plane.

ta-TUM, ta-TUM, ta-TUM, ta-TUM, ta-TUM

bum-de-bum-de-bum-de-bum;

Music is about time,' I told her. 'It is about controlling time.

Life has a strange rhythm. It takes a while to fully be aware of this (...) but the rhythm is there. The tempo shifts and fluctuates; there are structures within structures, patterns within patterns.

A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.

I solidi sublimano e diventano gas. L'acqua evapora. le pietre si sbriciolano e anche il granito alla fine diventa sabbia...... Ma il dolore no. E' indistruttibile, come l'oro, e il diamante. Il dolore resiste al tempo e a tutto, e semmai aumenta e si rinnova

Dance is an art in space and time. The object of the dancer is to obliterate that.

You don't need to master change, you only need to master time. Simply, because there is no change without time and time without change. They are two in one.

Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?

If it (life) is a rhythm, I have found my perfect beat!

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow.

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.

There has to be a minimum amount of Off time between one MIDI byte and the next: a "resting" interval of 1/31,250 second

There is a song within us all. I know this now because in the long silences of the open ocean I have heard it. It resounds. It is perpetual. It cannot be ignored. It is sweet. You can try to dismiss it, but it is more forceful than you are; it can drive you in ways of which you will not be conscious, for it is setting the tempo of your life even more strongly than the beat of your heart. Over time its volume will vary: one minute shrill, whispering the next. Yet it remains and is all-powerful

There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.