Quotes About Tempo

Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band.

You can't have a movie that's just 'Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom' constantly - you have to breathe.

At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.

Propelled by violas and stinging electric guitar, presto followed andante, and so to finale.

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio.

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

Today, I accept divine timing. I allow the pacing of the Universe to be my own. I align myself with the tempo of my life precisely as it is unfolding.

Timpului nu-i dai pinteni ca unui cal.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

Music is the framework around the silence.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Rests always sound well.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

Notes don't make music until you learn to insert silence between them.

The underlying process in Northern music tends to be slower and continuous, whatever's happening on the surface; in Southern music the underlying process is always faster.

I know club music has to be infectious and it's got to make you move.

Music definitely is part of my rhythm, you know I play with a rhythm so I have to listen to music.

He needs both patience and speed.

The minute hand moves faster than you think it does.

Music has the power to stop time. But music also keeps time.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

Pop music is like an auditory cup of coffee. It has no nutritional value but it gets you going.

My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.