Best Tempo Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 5

“I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek.”

Kind Bigs Keys Nuts Geek Tempo Things I Love Musicality

Author:Thomston

“We created this journey [in the Begin], sonically, that people can really wrap their heads around and live with and get to know us a little bit more. The dark colors, the light colors, our up-tempos, and our down-dreamy stuff.”

People Knows Littles Light Stuff Bits Dark Journey Color Little Bit Wraps Tempo Dreamy Dark Colors

Author:Jillian Hervey

“The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.”

Ifs Years Three Courses Left Force Wish Class Tasks Radical Fantastic Opposition Three Years Tempo Industrialization

Author:Leon Trotsky

“Tunes have notes and tempos and rules. If the tune is "All the Things You Are," you have to adhere to its structure and to the tradition behind that structure.”

Ifs Behinds Tradition Structure Notes Tunes Tempo

Author:John Kao

“Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.”

Knows Wanted Song Sound Lines Walks Records Heard Please Paper Guitar Radio Strings Bass Tempo Starks

Author:Johnny Cash

“I think I learned more about writing scores for Broadway by making mix tapes in the '90s than I did in college. You're learning about rise and fall and energy and tempo shifts. You're showing off your taste and your references. You're trying to be witty by - through placement of music you didn't write.”

Thinking Writing Trying Fall Energy College Taste Witty Score Tape Broadway Tempo Showing Off Rise And Fall Placement

Author:Lin-Manuel Miranda

“In this disintegrative, technologically-manic time, when public language is so debased, poetry continues to matter because it's the art that reintegrates words, speech, voice, breath, music, bodily tempo, and the powers of the imagination.”

Art Matter Language Voice Imagination Speech Breaths Tempo Manic

Author:Adrienne Rich

“You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.”

Knows Play Miles Buddy Vary Tempo

Author:Miles Davis

“The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.”

Littles Two Different Reason Play Sound Like You Flats Drummer Tempo Unison

Author:Miles Davis

“Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.”

Littles Sometimes Play Drummer Tempo Specks

Author:Miles Davis

“I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.”

Knows I Can Hard Gifted Tempo

Author:Miles Davis

“I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.”

Used Perfect Machines Tempo

Author:Miles Davis

“Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.”

Ifs Knows Heart Mean Persons Play Musician Tempo

Author:Miles Davis

“I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.”

Drummer Tempo Hernias

Author:Miles Davis

“If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Mean Shows Body Able Know How Musician Ems Suggestions Tempo Do It Yourself Nephew

Author:Miles Davis

“I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.”

Years Wanted Records Happened Years Ago Tempo Turner

Author:Miles Davis

“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.”

Different Use Song Band Odd Punk Norm Tempo Signatures

Author:Travis Barker

“Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually.”

People Thinking Want Different Play Actors Roles Fine Honor Come Up Bother Jerk Tempo Remakes

Author:Steve Martin

“Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.”

Different Facts Culture Stuff Sound Design Hip Hop Hips Hops Bass Tempo Visceral Electronic Music Sound Design

Author:Skrillex

“People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.”

People Kind Different Body Walks Fashion Your Body Different Kinds Heels Tempo High Heels

Author:Manolo Blahnik

“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”

World Want Ordinary Refuse Proportion Ecstasy Neurotic Disregard Tempo Ordinary World

Author:Anais Nin

“Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes”

Thinking Dream Eye Series Exit Tempo No Exit

Author:Bob Dylan

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

Devil Angel Rhythm Tempo Angel And Devil

Author:Anais Nin

“In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.”

Persons Different Games Winning Individual Sports Talent Basketball Baseball Series Titles Hockey Momentum Tempo Individual Talent

Author:Kobe Bryant

“... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)”

Pain Remember Greater Misery Tempo Happy Times

Author:Dante Alighieri

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

Men Passion Relationship Men And Women Cease Sarcastic Misunderstanding Tempo Funny Relationship

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”

World Ecstasy Neurotic Tempo Ordinary World

Author:Anais Nin

“He said his friend Victor called it a lucky charm, and that it kept him safe in Iraq." She felt her pulse pick up tempo, and she brought her face close to Ben's. "Did you say Victor called it a lucky charm?" "Uh-huh." Ben nodded. "That's what he said." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." Beth stared at her son, feeling at war with herself.”

Said War Feelings Faces Courses Felt Son Lucky Safe Picks Iraq Charm Pulse Tempo Beth Lucky Charms

Book:The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

“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.”

Art Written Paper Printed Tempo

Author:Pablo Casals

“He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language.”

World Matter Play Found Language Common Fields Keys Musician Circles Melody Tempo Woodstock Common Language

Book:Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

“Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.”

Men Heart Done Eye Powerful Vision Bears Beats Kingdoms Most Powerful Tolerate Tempo Powerful Man

Book:The Lady of the Rivers

Source: The Lady of the Rivers

“Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.”

Humanity Evil Hours Brain Four Modern Effects Habit Activity Miracle Twenties Coffee Tension Complexity Twelve Modern Life Tempo

Author:Margaret Meagher

“We feel that the 2-2-1 press is a very effective means of controlling tempo and providing us with opportunities to capitalize on the mistakes of our opponents. At the same time we feel it is a very safe press because we work very hard at the necessary rotations.”

Feels Mean Hard Opportunity Mistake Safe Basketball Presses Opponents Coaching Providing Tempo Basketball Coaching Rotation

Author:Jim Calhoun

“I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.”

Thinking World Feels Hard Play Games Practice Player Style Ready Pushing Hockey Competing Tempo Best Players Play Hard Pushing Each Other

Author:Cherie Piper

“It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.”

Knows Hard Play Millions Heard Harder Blue Shoes Hard Times Tempo Laid Back

Author:Brian Setzer

“We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold.”

Games Style College Basketball Ran Transition Boston Tempo

Author:Bob Cousy

“Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes.”

Writing Language Views Speech Contrary Dialogue Tempo Climax Semblance

Book:Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

Source: Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies

“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”

Feels Country Nature Walks Music Taken Environment Pieces Fine Walking Landscape Bicycle Tempo Natural Environment Nature Walk Walks In Nature Walking Fast

Book:The House of Europe

Source: The House of Europe

“It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.”

Perfect Music Radio Damn Desperate Pillow Covering Alarms Abraham Lively Tempo Start The Day Damn Things Upbeat Vivaldi

Book:The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

Source: The Ghost of Hannah Mendes

“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

“Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do.”

Thinking Want Giving Running Courses Determine Tempo

Author:Nina Kuscsik

“The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.”

Differences Tree Spring Gun Tempo

Author:Ezra Pound

“To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten.”

Mean Fall Behinds Progress Beaten Tempo Falling Behind

Book:Selected Writings

Source: Selected Writings

“There was no let-up. The tempo was always moderate but steady. If a new guy decided to pick up the pace, that's where it stayed, whether he finished with the group or not. You showed off at your peril.”

Ifs Running Guy Groups Picks Decided Finished Pace Steady Moderates Peril Tempo

Author:John L. Parker Jr.

“Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level.”

Wells Play Might Levels Player Minutes Needed International Soccer Tempo

Author:Claudio Reyna

“I hope my recordings of my own works won't inhibit other people's performances. The brutal fact is that one doesn't always get the exact tempo one wants, although one improves with experience.”

People Want Facts My Own Performances Brutal Tempo

Author:Aaron Copland

“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

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

Writing Tempo Great Wisdom

Author:Alan Hollinghurst

“Whenever I think of God I can only conceive of Him as a Being infinitely great and infinitely good. This last quality of the divine nature inspires me with such confidence and joy that I could have written even a miserere in tempo allegro.”

Thinking I Can Lasts Joy Quality Written Inspire Divine Tempo Divine Nature

Author:Joseph Haydn

“A great piece of music is beautiful regardless of how it is performed. Any prelude or fugue of Bach can be played at any tempo, with or without rhythmic nuances, and it will still be great music. That's how music should be written, so that no-one, no matter how philistine, can ruin it.”

Should Stills Matter Beautiful Pieces Written Music Is Ruins Tempo Great Music Nuance Prelude Philistines Fugue

Author:Dmitri Shostakovich

Tempo Quotes

Related topics

Tempo Quotes