Top 222 Tempo Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Tempo ... now there's a big word.

It's the rival that gives you the tempo depending on who is on the ball or who a pass is played to. That is the little secret.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

I think I can help push the tempo just a little bit... I feel I can get the ball after a rebound. Push the fastbreak. Push the tempo. Get guys some easy shots.

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

Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush.

Obviously, I don't want to be a sub, so I will just keep working hard in training. It's not that easy for me as a sub to come on with tempo.

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

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

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

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

I think very few shows have come into our industry and changed the tempo and the narrative of stories, and 'Once Upon a Time' did that.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.

Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.

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

I have to think in terms of musical tempo. Let's say someone comes into a room and slowly sits down or someone rushes into the room and rushes to sit down. That's how to work out the tempo of the music you produce.

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.

The Nike joint 'Classic' with Kanye, Nas, KRS-One, that was a remix - Rick Rubin did the original, and his was a double-time tempo; mine was a regular boom-bap tempo, and they liked it so much that we ended up doing the video to it.

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

London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

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

I want to focus more on my pitches, not on the tempo. After that, I felt more comfortable.

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

I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

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

I've played a lot of football in my life. I know the tempo and speed of the game.

As for Kaka, he is a superstar... someone who can change the tempo of the game as well as the team.

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

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

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

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.

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

If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you have to make sure you keep pushing the tempo.

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

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.

When you sit down and think about what rock 'n' roll music really is, then you have to change that question. Played up-tempo, you call it rock 'n' roll; at a regular tempo, you call it rhythm and blues.

The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.

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.

I ran a high-tempo offense in college. You don't really get caught up in it.

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

Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes

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

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

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

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

I prefer playing in songs where I have a tempo, groove and harmonic map to hang on to.

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

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

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

Little things that I've emphasized are turning in pockets and looking to penetrate and finding these spaces and playing at a good tempo when we're in the middle third.

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

When we play on big stages, we tend to beef off the dance side of things and keep up the tempo.