Metronomes Quotes

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

  Brian Setzer

  Song, Tempo, Originals

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• Artists are going to be the metronome of this society.

  Yoko Ono

  Art, Artist, This Society

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• 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.

  Ruggiero Ricci

  Play, Firsts, Watches

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

  Pete Wentz

  Body, Universe

  Pete Wentz, James Montgomery (2013). “Gray”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Make the metronome your friend, not your enemy.

  Vinnie Colaiuta

  Enemy

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• 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.

  Man Ray

  Eye, Cutting, Blow

  Roland Penrose (Sir.), Man Ray (1975). “Man Ray”, New York Graphic Society Books

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

  Mitch Albom

  Towns, Small Town, Beats

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• 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.

  Stanley Greenspan

  Exercise, Ideas, Attention

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

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Musical, Phrases

  Ezra Pound (1968). “Literary Essays of Ezra Pound”, p.3, New Directions Publishing

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

  Michael Shannon

  Routine, Stage, Soothing

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• 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.

  Craig Silvey

  Sorry, Revenge, Heart

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• 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.

  Lynn Townsend White, Jr.

  Glasses, Physicians, Stones

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