Tempo Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Dava Sobel

  Able, Tides, Heartbeat

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

  Eddie Floyd

  Song, People, Know Me

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• 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.

  Jules Shear

  Song, Guitar, Acoustics

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• You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  Song, Your Side, Long

  Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• 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.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Witty, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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.

  Johnny Cash

  Song, Guitar, Lines

  Source: wrvo.org

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• 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.

  John Kao

  Tunes, Tradition, Notes

  Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

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• 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.

  Leon Trotsky

  Class, Years, Wish

  Source: www.marxists.org

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• 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.

  Jillian Hervey

  Dark, Journey, Color

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• 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.

  Steve Martin

  Thinking, Play, People

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• Through the years I've accumulated this big bag of songs. When I go out I do close to two hours, and it's all just attitude - and up-tempo. I've accumulated so many of those types of songs now that the show just gets off with a bang, and I'll only do two or three ballads the whole show.

  Toby Keith

  Song, Attitude, Years

  "Q&A: The uncut Toby Keith interview". Interview with Ben Wener, www.ocregister.com. August 30, 2007.

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

  Thomston

  Keys, Nuts, Things I Love

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• Someone who only wants to play sold-out shows will find a tempo that works at the shows and then focus on making that kind of music, but maybe they'll miss out on other things because of it.

  Vince Staples

  Play, Focus, Missing

  "Vince Staples Talks About Prima Donna, Celebrity & Frank Ocean". Interview with Highsnobiety, www.highsnobiety.com.

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• As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.

  Julia Cameron

  Holiday, Disruption, Disturbing

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.176, Penguin

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• You know One Direction do a lot of up tempo songs, but when they did that Ed Sheeran song 'Little Things,' that was probably their biggest song off their last album, so it shows you that a ballad never goes out of fashion.

  Shane Filan

  Fashion, Song, One Direction

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• I often think it's unfair to the listener and "too easy" to just choose one tempo while I make and decide the songs.

  Gylve Nagell

  Song, Thinking, Easy

  "Missed Opportunities". Interview with Marc Masters and Grayson Currin, pitchfork.com. March 19, 2010.

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• Sometimes I'll have a whole song done without having a beat - I'll just rap on an instrumental tempo and recreate a whole new song just around the lyrics.

  Tyga

  Song, Rap, Done

  "ManCrushMonday: Tyga Wants You to Know There's A Lot More to Him Than Kylie Jenner". Interview with Erica Gonzales, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 30, 2016.

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• In times when the tempo for struggle is not very high, you prepare populations by conducting acts of courage-building, confidence-building, respect for each other. That's what the preparation is about and it requires leadership.

  Vijay Prashad

  Struggle, Preparation, Population

  "“Exiles From the Future”: An Interview with Vijay Prashad". Interview with Andrew Stewart, www.counterpunch.org. August 17, 2016.

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• 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.

  Adrienne Rich

  Art, Voice, Imagination

  Source: www.paulodacosta.ca

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• Everybody recommended me to Sinatra and Don Costa, because everybody was enjoying my music. I got a big following going on. Nino (Tempo) told Don Costa "you gotta come see this guy." And that's how Don Costa heard about me, through Nino Tempo. Then, Don Costa brought me to the attention of Frank Sinatra and Reprise Records.

  Trini Lopez

  Guy, Attention, Records

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• I make a lot of music for different people. My audience is varied so I use different tempos for different music in order to satisfy my many fans.

  Sizzla

  Order, People, Fans

  Source: nehandaradio.com

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• We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.

  Don DeLillo

  Book, Media, Age

  "I don't know America anymore". Interview with Christoph Amend, Georg Diez, perival.com. October 11, 2007.

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• There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity.

  Mike McCurry

  Political, Campaigns, Venture

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• It's always a blast playing the new stuff. But I feel like songs, in a way, are never finished. You get to a point where you're comfortable enough to put a stamp on it and send it out there, but even after recording it, when you're playing it live, you hear different harmonies, you hear different notes, you hear different tempos or peaks and valleys in the song.

  Chuck Ragan

  Song, Different, Valleys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads.

  RuPaul

  Reflection, Ballads, Pops

  "RuPaul interview with ChicagoPride.com". Interview with Daisy Mae, chicago.gopride.com. October 27, 2004.

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