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

  Nick Faldo

  Golf, Swings, Together

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• I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo.

  Bessie Smith

  Want, Drummer

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• 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

  Song, Signatures, Different

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• We were always taught to swing slow with good tempo. But you have to have some acceleration throughout the swing. I think that's where a lot of women go wrong. They should try to whack it a few times and see what happens.

  Helen Alfredsson

  Golf, Thinking, Swings

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• The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Real, Space, Levels

  Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.49, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Time, Philosophical, Mean

  Cornelia Otis Skinner (1985). “Bottoms up!”

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

  Charles Kelley

  Song, Ballads

  "Lady Antebellum: On Heels of No. 1 Album, Charles Kelley Talks Crossover Success (Q&A)". Interview with Andy Eiser, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 22, 2011.

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

  Ezra Pound

  Spring, Gun, Differences

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

  Alan Hollinghurst

  Writing, Great Wisdom

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• I get asked all the time, "What is a George Strait song?" I know it when I hear it. I don't seek a specific tempo or lyric or melody. It just has to make sense. Maybe it is natural because I was given the gift to sing.

  George Strait

  Song, Natural, Given

  Source: 159.54.226.237

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

  Anais Nin

  Angel, Devil, Rhythm

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• I mean that's something we're very conscious of when writing. Tempos are very important. Like "Oh we can't play the song too fast because people aren't going to feel it." There's a pulse to a song. You can't play it too slow. We're always trying to find the perfect tempo.

  Tony Palermo

  Song, Writing, Mean

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• 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.

  Richard Sennett

  Victory, Needs, Roles

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• 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.

  Kobe Bryant

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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

  Miles Davis

  Gifted, Knows, Hard

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• The different tempos and yeah, it's cadence. It's the way she moves through space, it's gestures.

  Vera Farmiga

  Moving, Space, Different

  "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview by Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.

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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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• 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.

  Marc Myers

  Average, Taste, Musician

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

  Manolo Blahnik

  Fashion, High Heels, People

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2015

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• 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

  Art, Paper, Printed

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

  Richard Wagner

  Duty, Ability, Conductor

  Richard Wagner (1887). “Wagner on Conducting”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• 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.

  Aaron Copland

  People, Want, Facts

  "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music". Book by Richard Kostelanetz, 1996.

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• If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work.

  Ben E. King

  Song, Feelings, Enjoy

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• Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

  Stan Kenton

  Play, People, Worry

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• I like clever songs. I like songs that make people think and I try to have substance in all my records, even with 'Sweet Dreams' how it was a club record and it was up tempo, but it was melodic and it was, like, lyrical.

  Rico Love

  Dream, Song, Sweet

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