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“Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.”

Art Artist This Society Metronomes

Author:Yoko Ono

“Small towns are like metronomes; with the slightest flick, the beat changes.”

Beats Towns Small Town Metronomes

Author:Mitch Albom

“Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”

Writing Musical Phrases Sequence Metronomes

Book:Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound

“Cut out the eye from a photograph of one who has been loved but is seen no more. Attach the eye to the pendulum of a metronome and regulate the weight to suit the tempo desired. Keep going to the limit of endurance. With a hammer well-aimed, try to destroy the whole at a single blow.”

Trying Wells Has Beens Whole Eye Cutting Limits Weight Photograph Blow Suits Endurance Keep Going Hammers Tempo Pendulums Metronomes

Book:Man Ray

Source: Man Ray

“I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.”

Song Originals Tempo Metronomes

Author:Brian Setzer

“Attention, learning, and problem solving depend in part on the ability to plan and sequence actions and ideas. The Interactive Metronome(R) helps individuals systematically exercise and often improve basic motor planning and sequencing capacities.”

Ideas Helping Problem Action Individual Ability Attention Plans Depends Exercise Capacity Planning Problem Solving Sequence Motor Interactive Sequencing Metronomes

Author:Stanley Greenspan

“So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.”

Ifs Firsts Play Able Difficult Watches Rhythm Orchestra Conductor Your Freedom Metronomes

Author:Ruggiero Ricci

“My body is a metronome, keeping time for the universe.”

Body Universe Metronomes

Book:Gray

Source: Gray

“Sorry means you leave yourself open, to embrace or to ridicule or to revenge. Sorry is a question that begs forgiveness, because the metronome of a heart won't settle until things are set right and true. Sorry doesn't take things back, but it pushes things forward. It bridges the gap. Sorry is a sacrament. It's an offering. A gift.”

Heart Mean Embrace Sorry Revenge Bridges Settling Gaps Offering Sacraments Ridicule Metronomes

Author:Craig Silvey

“The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing.”

Stage Routine Grounded Soothing Metronomes

Author:Michael Shannon

“Make the metronome your friend, not your enemy.”

Enemy Metronomes

Author:Vinnie Colaiuta

“Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.”

Firsts Students Poet Stones Glasses Physicians Inventor Polymaths Quartz Metronomes

Author:Lynn Townsend White, Jr.