Tempo's Quotes

Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's. — Donald Rumsfeld

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.) — Dante Alighieri

I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs. — Charles Kelley

I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo. — Bessie Smith

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute. — David Byrne

American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. — Harold Rosenberg

Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other. — Imelda May

Music is rhythm, and all theater is rhythm. It's about tempo and change and pulse, whether you're doing a verse play by Shakespeare or a musical. — Diane Paulus

Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together. — Nick Faldo

I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts. — Booboo Stewart

Tempo ... now there's a big word. — Barry Venison

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that. — Tennessee Ernie Ford

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

At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. — Shana Alexander

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

The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. — Richard Wagner

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. — Iggy Azalea

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen. — Thomas Merton

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

People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo. — Manolo Blahnik

Choose your tempo," he whispered in her ear. "What?" "Fast and hard or slow and easy. Your tempo, your choice. You get to direct this symphony. — Mari Carr

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. — Aberjhani

I like mixing things up, doing some silly stuff, along with serious stuff, up tempo, and some quiet things ... it keeps me interested. — Tom Rush

I think of a sun like Beethoven, a wind like Debussy, and birdcalls like Stravinsky. But the tempo is all mine. — Patricia Highsmith

Today, I accept divine timing. I allow the pacing of the Universe to be my own. I align myself with the tempo of my life precisely as it is unfolding. — Julia Cameron

I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo. — Eugene Ormandy

Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it! — Brian Tracy

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

That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll. — Little Richard

For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. — Cornel West

Talk with a comfortable tempo - too fast sounds nervous and you might lose the audience, too slow can come across as dull-witted. — Glen Wilson

To slacken the tempo ... would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten ... — Joseph Stalin

I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light. — Mads Mikkelsen

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

I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.' — Diane Warren

People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits. — Eddie Floyd

Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists. — Alison Moyet

I try to get control of the tempo, control of the flow, and get my teammates the ball in the best position to score. — Deron Williams

To get involved with the following loves will bring grief to your life style: musician, author and actor. — Daniel Bel-Tempo

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

If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine. — Zach Johnson

We complain of the increased tempo of our lives, but our frenetic lives are just reflection of the economic system that we have created. — Stanley Hauerwas

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio. — Agatha Christie

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

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. — Travis Barker

my skin listening

still no accompanist:

I can't kiss me!

and the sperm's tempo
always insisting — Andrew Demcak

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. — Pablo Casals

The golf swing is very, very rhythmic. There's a certain tempo to it, just like in music. — Justin Timberlake

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. — Ezra Pound

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. — Anton Seidl

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

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

My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to. — Jordan Knight

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential. — Ray Stevens

'Things that Never Cross a Man's Mind' is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and it's a fun song. — Kellie Pickler

Take my hand, my love. On sinews of air we tread Aught but distance our guide With no tempo to our gait No endpoint drawn Neither plot nor plan — C.D. Reiss

I sat down on the sofa, strangely restless, it was as though the tempo inside me was greater than that outside. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't. — Eugene Ormandy

The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush. — Eugene Ormandy