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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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• We have the freedom to either play a tempo or not to play a tempo; to play a note or not to play a note; or to play what some people would say is a sound.

  Lester Bowie

  Play, People, Sound

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• It's funny because you do often read in recounts of very famous albums, people tend to focus on mistakes in really positive ways, and there's certain mistakes of my own that I always do find on every record that I needed to accept. I find it really interesting to talk about. I always write songs at the wrong tempos, and I have to learn to accept that a little bit.

  Zach Condon

  Song, Mistake, Writing

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• You ever hear Buddy Miles play the drums? You know, he doesn't vary the tempo at all.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Miles, Knows

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I like "God Give Me the Strength" very much. It's not really a blues and to call it a ballad is absurd. I don't know, its mid-tempo. Mark (St. John) actually wrote it and I think its very telling of our lives in the 60s. Its just a good song, ya know.

  Dick Taylor

  Song, Thinking, Giving

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• Some musicians play with their heart, you know what I mean? I don't know what to tell a person that can't - if you can't tell a person what you're talkin' about when they're rushin' or droppin' the tempo, you get somebody else.

  Miles Davis

  Heart, Mean, Play

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• The reason [drummers] call things "unison", and they sound unison, is because you actually play two different tempos . . . like you're a little sharp, or a little flat; it's so slight that they call it "unison", but it's not unison.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Two, Sound

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• If you make a suggestion and [musicians] don't know what you mean, you have to be able to do it yourself. I often sit down on drums and show 'em just exactly what I want. And I do it and then say, "How do you do that?" It's because I know how it looks, I know what I want to hear, and I don't drop or rush any tempo. It ain't in my body, it ain't in my nephew's body.

  Miles Davis

  Mean, Nephew, Musician

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• He dreamed of amassing musicians from all over the world in Woodstock and they would sit in a field in a circle and play and play. It didn't matter what key or tempo or what melody, they would keep on playing through their discordance until they found a common language.

  Patti Smith

  Keys, Play, Circles

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.169, A&C Black

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• It is always there, of course, when you come back from the green world. You have been living by sunrise and sunset, by wind and rain, surrounded by the ebb and flow of lives that respond only to such simple, rhythmic elements. But now the tone and tempo of the days switch. Instead of harmony, jangle.

  Colin Fletcher

  Rain, Sunset, Simple

  Colin Fletcher (1973). “The Winds of Mara”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• Sometimes melody and sometimes lyrics. It depends on the tempo and feel of the song. Slower pieces usually begin with melody and faster ones with lyrics. I write for the song and it leads me to my conclusion.

  Ronnie James Dio

  Song, Writing, Pieces

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• I had a growing feeling that most of the best art of the world in painting and sculpture had been done, and that this newest form [photography] was more related to the progress and tempo of modern science of the eye.

  Paul Outerbridge

  Photography, Art, Eye

  Graham Howe, Paul Outerbridge, Jacqueline Markham (1980). “Paul Outerbridge, Jr: photographs”

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• Fandango was around before the Internet. Fandango is a Spanish-American dance. It's a lively tempo dance. It's almost like the tango. That's what it says in the Merriam-Webster [dictionary]. The second entry is [defined as] 'tomfoolery.' That's what it says in the dictionary, that's what I go by. I remember Queen saying it too on 'Bohemian Rhapsody.' When I was little I never understood what they meant by 'do the fandango.

  DJ Quik

  Queens, Bohemian Rhapsody, Littles

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• I've gotten hernias from drummers when they drop tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Drummer, Hernias

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

  Miles Davis

  Years, Records, Wanted

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Drummers - sometimes they play and they listen. And that little listen takes a speck away from the right tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Play, Littles, Sometimes

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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• Hip-hop and electronic music are so similar, in the fact that they're both very visceral, have so much bass; a lot of times, it's the same tempos. The culture and some of the sound design is different but a lot of times, it's the same stuff.

  Skrillex

  Design, Hip Hop, Facts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Things that Never Cross a Mans Mind is probably one of my favorite upbeat tempo songs because it is just a sassy song, and its a fun song.

  Kellie Pickler

  Song, Fun, Sassy

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• 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.

  Chris Isaak

  Song, Fun, Writing

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• 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

  Nice, Thinking, Artist

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• He said his friend Victor called it a lucky charm, and that it kept him safe in Iraq." She felt her pulse pick up tempo, and she brought her face close to Ben's. "Did you say Victor called it a lucky charm?" "Uh-huh." Ben nodded. "That's what he said." "Are you sure?" "Of course I'm sure." Beth stared at her son, feeling at war with herself.

  Nicholas Sparks

  War, Son, Lucky Charms

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Lucky One”, p.210, Hachette UK

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• I urge pupils when studying a work and in order to master its most important aspic, the rhythmic structure, or the ordering of the time process, to do just what a conductor does with the score: to place music on the desk and to conduct the work from beginning to end as if it were played by someone else, an imaginary pianist with the conductor trying to impress him with his will, his tempo first of all, plus all the details of his performance.

  Heinrich Neuhaus

  Order, Important, Trying

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• Once more, I am watching the most powerful men in the kingdom bring their power to bear on a woman who has done nothing worse than live to the beat of her own heart, see with her own eyes; but this is not their tempo nor their vision and they cannot tolerate any other.

  Philippa Gregory

  Powerful, Heart, Eye

  Philippa Gregory (2013). “The Lady of the Rivers”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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

  Cornel West

  Musician, Tone, Poet

  Source: www.npr.org

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• 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

  Basketball, College, Boston

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