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“I’d go for Scholesy as the club’s greatest ever player. I’ve seen him do things that no other player can do. The way he can control the tempo of games, and his range of passing, are both incredible. We’ve seen over the years that players just haven’t been able to get near him. And you can’t forget his goals either.”

Way Years Able Games Goal Can Do Forget Player Havens Incredibles Clubs Passing Passings Range Tempo

Author:Ryan Giggs

“Our modern economy privileges pure profit, momentary transactions and rapid fluidity. Part of craft’s anchoring role is that it helps to objectify experience and also to slow down labor. It is not about quick transactions or easy victories. That slow tempo of craftwork, of taking the time you need to do something well, is profoundly stabilizing to individuals.”

Needs Wells Helping Individual Easy Roles Economy Modern Victory Pure Labor Privilege Profit Crafts Slow Down Rapids Tempo Transactions Momentary Fluidity

Author:Richard Sennett

“There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.”

Way Feels Wells Play Guy Language Causes Music Conversation Jazz Musical Hearing Composition Arrangements Solo This Guy Monk Ongoing Jazz Music Tricky Tempo

Author:Roy Haynes

“The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.”

Labor Sacred Dancing Metaphor Brilliant Eras Wounded Horns Clash Tempo New Era Halos Vortex

Book:The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)

Source: The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)

“I can tell jokes. I can talk to the audience. I can relax. I can change my songs whenever I want. I can change the tempos. I can change the mood, because I'm in charge.”

Want I Can Song Audience Jokes Mood Relax Tempo

Author:Robert Goulet

“The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.”

Source: Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible

“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.”

Ifs Able Tides Heartbeat Tempo Timepieces

Author:Dava Sobel

“At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69.”

Funny Certain Insecurity Concerts Orchestra Tempo

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together.”

Together Elements Sticks Golf Swings Tempo Glue Golf Swing

Author:Nick Faldo

“When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.”

Thinking Rocks Down And Rhythm Rock N Roll Tempo Rhythm And Blues Rock N Roll Music

Author:Little Richard

“What separates great jazz musicians from average ones is Taste. Those who have taste consistently choose notes, tempos, timbres and voicings that seduce and satisfy attentive listeners.”

Taste Musician Jazz Notes Average Consistently Listeners Jazz Music Tempo Seducing Jazz Musician Timbre

Author:Marc Myers

“I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.”

Want Drummer Tempo

Author:Bessie Smith

“We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.”

Humans Slow Down Tempo

Book:Seeds

Source: Seeds

“London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.”

Minutes Beats London Tempo

Author:David Byrne

“Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.”

Song Concepts Guitar Tempo Acoustics Acoustic Guitar

Author:Jules Shear

“I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.”

Sometimes My Own Fingers Rehearsal Tempo

Author:Tennessee Ernie Ford

“The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo.”

Whole Ability Duty Tempo Conductor

Book:Wagner on Conducting

Source: Wagner on Conducting

“Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.”

Ifs Want Mean Today Fighting Tomorrow Determine Rhythm Tempo

Author:Carlo Petrini

“I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo.”

Knows Funny Orchestra Tempo Conducting

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't.”

Funny Orchestra Tempo

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.”

Mean Funny Orchestra Tempo

Author:Eugene Ormandy

“I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.”

Thinking Levels Emotional Rap Related Tempo Aggressiveness

Author:Iggy Azalea

“The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.”

Mind Feelings Action Lines Effects Direct Objectives Rhythm Consideration Affected Tempo Direct Effect

Book:Building A Character

Source: Building A Character

“The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.”

Ifs Tempo Suitcases

Author:Daniel Barenboim

“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.”

Term Emotion Keys Musical Senses Composer Primitive Embarrassing Tempo

Author:Jane Campion

“People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits.”

People Knows Song Know Me Tempo

Author:Eddie Floyd

“If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Trying Would Be Song Fun Attention Focus Months Albums Eight Drag Tempo Singles

Author:Chris Isaak

“I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.”

Song Tempo Ballads

Author:Charles Kelley

“My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to.”

Heart My Heart Tempo

Author:Jordan Knight

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