Tempo Quotes

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

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

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

I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.