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  • 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.

    Writing   Views   Speech  
    Sol Stein (2014). “Stein On Writing: A Master Editor of Some of the Most Successful Writers of Our Century Shares His Craft Techniques and Strategies”, p.110, St. Martin's Press
  • 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.

    Art   Paper   Tempo  
  • 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.

    Reading   Night   Rocks  
    Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.
  • There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.

    Football   War   Ballet  
    Source: www.vibe.com
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.

    Song   Your Side   Long  
    Wilfrid Sheed (1990). “Essays in Disguise”, Alfred A. Knopf
  • Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song.

    Song   Guitar   Lines  
    Source: wrvo.org
  • The same passions in man and woman nonetheless differ in tempo; hence man and woman do not cease misunderstanding one another.

  • You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
  • The hardest thing about an easy match is making a weak opponent play poor. A poor player isn't poor because he tends to kick the ball in his own goal. It's because when you put intense pressure on him, he loses control. So you have to increase the tempo of the game and he'll automatically give the ball away.

    Player   Games   Giving  
  • If you just concentrate on what you're doing and allow yourself to actually enjoy and let your feelings come out, whatever the tempos, whatever the rhythms, whatever the songs, 9 out of 10 times it will work.

    Song   Feelings   Enjoy  
  • 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.

    Mean   Nephew   Musician  
    Source: hepcat1950.com
  • 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.

    Diary entries, March 25, 1933.
  • Fast tempo is essential for success; do it, fix it, try it!

  • The biochemistry and biophysics are the notes required for life; they conspire, collectively, to generate the real unit of life, the organism. The intermediate level, the chords and tempos, has to do with how the biochemistry and biophysics are organized, arranged, played out in space and time to produce a creature who grows and divides and is.

    Real   Space   Levels  
    Ursula Goodenough (2000). “The Sacred Depths of Nature”, p.49, Oxford University Press, USA
  • I think we're really good about pushing each other in practice and we have high tempo and I feel like we have some of the best players in the world so just competing against one another and getting in there and pushing each other around and getting ready for that physical style of game coming up, we have to play hard and pretend it's a game.

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

  • The Left Opposition declared that the new tempo of industrialization were above our forces, and that the liquidation of the kulaks as a class in the course of three years was a fantastic task, if one wishes to say so, we find ourselves this time "less radical" than the Stalinists.

    Class   Years   Wish  
    Source: www.marxists.org
  • 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.

    Mean   Fighting   Want  
  • London's tempo is 122.86 beats per minute.

    London   Beats   Minutes  
    "In David Byrne, Meltdown 2015 has found more than a talking head" by Hannah Ellis-Petersen, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2015.
  • I can tell. I'm gifted with that, you know. When I hear that the tempo is slightly off, it's hard for me.

    Gifted   Tempo   Knows  
    Source: hepcat1950.com
  • 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.

    Play   Two   Sound  
    Source: hepcat1950.com
  • The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

  • 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.

    Hard Times   Blue   Play  
  • 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 (2011). “The Collected Essays of Ralph Ellison: Revised and Updated”, p.239, Modern Library
  • The faster you work and the more you get done, the better you feel. Most successful people work at a higher tempo of activity than unsuccessful people. They don't necessarily do different things, but they get things done more efficiently in a given time than the average person.

    Success   Work   Average  
    Brian Tracy (2007). “Time Power: A Proven System for Getting More Done in Less Time Than You Ever Thought Possible”, p.157, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn
  • 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

    Music   Country   Nature  
    Paul Scott Mowrer (1945). “The House of Europe”
  • Our time has produced a need for contrast. This has been achieved not only in the external appearance of plastic expressions of coulor and matter, but also, and chiefly, in the tempo of life and in the techniques related to the daily, mechanical functions of life; namely standing, walking, driving, to lying and sitting - in short, every action which determines the content of architecture.

    "Painting and plastic art". De Stijl, series XIII, 73-4, pp. 17 - 18, 1926.
  • People walk differently in high heels. Your body sways to a different kind of tempo.

    Twitter post from Nov 18, 2015
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