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People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo. -- Manolo Blahnik
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
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
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. -- Little Richard
It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was. -- Brian Setzer
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo. -- Karlheinz Stockhausen
Accelerando means in tempo. Don't rush. -- Eugene Ormandy
London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute. -- David Byrne
I don't want no drummer. I set the tempo. -- Bessie Smith
I'm conducting slowly because I don't know the tempo. -- Eugene Ormandy
Suddenly I was in the right tempo - but it wasn't. -- Eugene Ormandy
My heart has always been in more up-tempo music you can dance to. -- Jordan Knight
At every concert I've sensed a certain insecurity about the tempo. It's clearly marked 80...uh, 69. -- Eugene Ormandy
It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities. -- Anton Seidl
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos. -- Brian Setzer
The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe. -- Harold Rosenberg
Running gives freedom. When you run you can determine your own tempo. You can choose your own course and think whatever you want. Nobody tells you what to do. -- Nina Kuscsik
There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast -- Paul Scott Mowrer
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
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
Sure we have skilled players, but the biggest thing might just be that we are so well conditioned and how we can play for 90 minutes at a high tempo which is needed in soccer at an international level. -- Claudio Reyna
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
Tempo ... now there's a big word. -- Barry Venison
Tempo is the glue that sticks all elements of the golf swing together. -- Nick Faldo
I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that. -- Tennessee Ernie Ford
There are so many similarities between a startup venture and a political campaign - the rhythm, the tempo, the hours, the intensity. -- Mike McCurry
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
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
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
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
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
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. -- Daniel Barenboim
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
I stopped making videos and commercials for a few months before I started films just to reset my clock because so much narrative filmmaking is a sense of tempo and rhythm. -- Mark Romanek
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
I got bored with the old way - it came too easy. I worked until I could play and chord changes at any tempo in any key, and then said 'What else is there?' Now I'm finding out. -- Don Ellis
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
I did quite a lot of the arranging, fitting different sections together, tempo changes, all sorts of things like that. I actually acted as a bridge between Robert and Ian. Not so much composing, rather presenting musical ideas at each rehearsal. -- Michael Giles
Hamp would ask me about tempos in the band: 'Jacquet,' he'd say, 'knock off that tempo.' A lot of jazz musicians didn't prefer to play for dancers, which was their loss, really. But good jazz has always had that dance feel. -- Illinois Jacquet
Mentally, my key is just focusing on the little things I need to do in a race, whether that's tempo, turn entry, start speed, things like that. I'm not thinking about that much before or during a race. I just trust in my ability and all the hard work I put in and let the race come to me. -- Shani Davis
Some bands blow it before they even play. The most important moment of any show is when a band walks out with the red amp lights glowing, the flashlight that shows each performer the way to his spot on the stage. It's crucial not to blow it. It sets the tempo of the show; it affects everyone's perception of the band. -- Johnny Ramone
I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, 'Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.' -- Mako
A lot of artists go in the studio and say, 'OK, whaddaya want me to do? Is it gonna be a hit? I'll do it. Is it gonna get played on the radio? I'll do it.' So they start makin' these songs, and they fall in the same tempo, same category, same this, same that, and it'll just all sound the same. -- B.o.B
Movies always are open to being remade because times change so much, and the tempo of movies changes. I think of it like a James Bond. They can have different actors play the same role... I've had people come up to me and say, 'We want to remake 'The Jerk' with so and so.' And I say, 'Fine.' It just doesn't bother me. It's an honor actually. -- Steve Martin
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs. -- Charles Kelley
People know me for up-tempo songs because of my hits. -- Eddie Floyd
Quanto dura? Il teatro, voglio dire?""Tutto il tempo. In eterno. -- Neil Gaiman
Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it! -- Brian Tracy
To slacken the tempo...would mean falling behind. And those who fall behind get beaten... -- Joseph Stalin
We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen. -- Thomas Merton
The whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability to indicate the right tempo. -- Richard Wagner
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books. -- Don DeLillo
As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time. -- Julia Cameron
That's what Tina Turner did, too - sang blues up-tempo - and they called it rock 'n' roll. -- Little Richard
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. -- Ezra Pound
Interestingly, bonobo percussionists prefer a tempo of 280 beats per minute, the syllabic rate at which most humans speak. -- Dr Susan Block
At Gatling-gun tempo word-perfect the first time out. the journalistic equivalent of a high-wire front somersault without a net. -- Shana Alexander
His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it. -- Anais Nin
For me, musicians are poets. Beethoven describes himself as a poet of tones, just like Coltrane's a poet of tempo. -- Cornel West
My music is a reflection of what I really love to listen to, pop, dance, mid tempo dance and ballads. -- RuPaul
The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo. -- Alan Hollinghurst
I don't just do power ballads. I have a lot of up-tempo stuff, too - like 'Can't Fight the Moonlight.' -- Diane Warren
Know that the immediate staff and others in the Administration will assume that your manner, tone and tempo reflect the President's. -- Donald Rumsfeld
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
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 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
I am a big nut for kind of weird musicality things. I love key-changes and random tempo things and polyrhythms - music geek. -- Thomston
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
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
... 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
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
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
And since time sets its own tempo, like a heartbeat or an ebb tide, timepieces don't really keep time. They just keep up with it, if they're able. -- Dava Sobel
Tea at the Ritz is the last delicious morsel of Edwardian London. The light is kind, the cakes are frivolous and the tempo is calm, confident and leisurely. -- Helen Simpson
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
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 -- Bob Dylan
I've tried as much as possible to avoid the standard nine-to-five thing. I've tried to organize my life so that I can move around, change the rhythm and the tempo. -- Assata Shakur
Dialogue, contrary to popular view, is not a recording of actual speech; it is a semblance of speech, an invented language of exchanges that build in tempo or content toward climaxes. -- Sol Stein
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
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
Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo. -- Jules Shear
Two steps forward...one step back...I've always hated that old cliche too...I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then. -- Isabelle Rowan
Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night. -- Van Morrison
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
I don't even know if hip-hop is music anymore. It's definitely rhythm. It's definitely tempo. It's definitely beats per minute. But it's product. And television is product placement for the most part. It's not passion. -- CeeLo Green

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