Tempo Quotes - Page 6

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

  Little Richard

  Rocks, Rock N Roll, Turner

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• 'Master Blaster,' by Stevie Wonder, is up-tempo and fun, like Stevie himself. Stevie's always making jokes; he really knows how to put people at ease. He's one of my inspirations, as a musician and a person.

  Ziggy Marley

  Fun, Inspiration, People

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

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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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• 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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• You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

  Shane Filan

  Country, Song, Feel Good

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Being Slow means that you control the rhythms of your own life. You decide how fast you have to go in any context. If today I want to go fast, I go fast. If tomorrow I want to go slow, I go slow. What we are fighting for is the right to determine our own tempos.

  Carlo Petrini

  Mean, Fighting, Want

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• 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

  Rap, Emotional, Thinking

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

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• The direct effect on our mind is achieved by the words, the text, the thought, which arouse consideration. Our will is directly affected by the super-objective, by other objectives, by a through line of action. Our feelings are directly worked upon by tempo-rhythm.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Direct Effect, Feelings, Mind

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.208, A&C Black

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• My musical knowledge is so bad it's embarrassing. When composers discuss music with someone as primitive as myself, they have to talk about it in terms of senses and emotion, rather than keys and tempo.

  Jane Campion

  Keys, Musical, Emotion

  "How we made: Michael Nyman and Jane Campion on The Piano". Interview with Anna Tims, www.theguardian.com. July 30, 2012.

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• A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference.

  Leonard Cohen

  Different, Driving, Comeback

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• I like to go in the corner, in the quiet, 'cause I got to hear my thoughts. If I hear the beat for, like, five seconds, I basically got the tempo, and I don't need to hear it no more. I just focus and write.

  Dreezy

  Writing, Focus, Causes

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I've used [drum machine] because I have to have the perfect tempo.

  Miles Davis

  Perfect, Machines, Used

  Source: hepcat1950.com

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Relationship, Sarcastic, Passion

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• I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

  Anais Nin

  Ordinary World, Want, Proportion

  Diary entries, March 25, 1933.

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• Coffee has ... expand[ed] humanity's working-day from twelve to a potential twenty-four hours. The tempo, the complexity, the tension of modern life, call for something that can perform the miracle of stimulating brain activity, without evil, habit-forming after-effects.

  Margaret Meagher

  Coffee, Evil, Miracle

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• I’d go for Scholesy as the club’s greatest ever player. I’ve seen him do things that no other player can do. The way he can control the tempo of games, and his range of passing, are both incredible. We’ve seen over the years that players just haven’t been able to get near him. And you can’t forget his goals either.

  Ryan Giggs

  Player, Years, Games

  "Giggs hails Scholes as Man United's greatest ever player" by Ian Cruise, talksport.com. February 1, 2011.

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• At best Americans give but a limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest.

  Ralph Ellison

  Giving, Attention, Too Much

  Ralph Ellison (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.239, Modern Library

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

  Brian Setzer

  Song, Metronomes, Originals

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