Quotes About Tempo

It doesn't mean a thing if you ain't got that swing

Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

You can play fast but not in a hurry. As a point guard, I can dictate that.

For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music.

In animation, action is changing so quickly that there's really not a lot of suspended moments.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

But primarily, the drummer's supposed to sit back there and swing the band.

Swing is my favorite kind of music.

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

Reckless archaism. Arpeggiating under the influence. Presto in an andante zone.

Slow" works on an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

How sour sweet music isWhen time is broke and no proportion kept!So is it in the music of men's lives.

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Sera del 25 settembre. Se in questa devastazione un grillo cantasse, chi mai lo udirebbe tra le schiere degli angeli? Domanda oziosa, i grilli sono scomparsi da tempo.

Jazz is the art of timing. It teaches you when. When to start, when to wait, when to step it up, and when to take your time—indispensable tools for making someone else happy.

Wanna beat the heatJust keep on rocking to the beat

Its sound is the foundation of the rhythm of a band, often pounding out the basic pulse of the music or playing along with the bass player's rhythm.

snare drum creates the backbeat (the driving rhythm

Sono desolato di essere tanto idiota e ottuso, ma veramente non capisco." "Non è grave, non è il solo." "Non potrebbe spiegarmi?" "Mi fa orrore perdere tempo.

I like drums, really, if they're under control.

I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.