Quotes About Tempo

Do not hurry; do not rest.

Timing is everything in life and in golf.

everyone clapped, in metronomic spasms.

You need a pulse in a film. If I see a film that doesn't have rhythm, it's like listening to music that doesn't have rhythm; it doesn't really work.

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

I feel like the guitar playing gives me rhythm with my punches - really helps to change up my jab.

The golden rule of drums is hands clapping and feet tapping, and when you are in and out of consciousness, you can't do that to best of your ability.

The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

but music, which is inextricably intertwined with time, is also paradoxically a release from time

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

Reality has a pulse, a rhythm, for lack of better words.

I guess I've become very accustomed to playing in the 7/4, which is something we've done quite a lot.

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

So I concentrated on the rhythmic side of things, and therefore left a lot of holes. I didn't want to use big pad chords everywhere. All of the songs are built up of small melodies and counter melodies all played very rhythmically.

The bell that measures time is ringing

Just because you're not a drummer doesn't mean you don't have to keep time.

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

Music's exclusive function is to structure the flow of time and keep order in it.

And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able.

Music is...the coordination between man and time.

Time passes so slowly if you are unaware of it and so quickly if you are aware of it.

I'm not gonna die in 4/4 time.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.