Metronome Quotes

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos. (Brian Setzer)
Artists are going to be the metronome of this society. View quote
Yoko Ono
I hope, most revered Maestro, that these metronome markings, in my opinion wholly unneeded by you, are specific enough. Where they do not fit with your conception, I implore you urgently just to ignore them. View quote
Richard Strauss
The stage is a routine. It keeps you grounded, like a metronome. I find that soothing. View quote
Michael Shannon
So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms. View quote
Ruggiero Ricci
The beat must not be like a tyrannical hammer, impeding or urging on, but must be to the music what the pulse-beat is to the life of man. There is no slow tempo in which passages do not occur that demand a quicker motion, so as to obviate the impression of dragging. Conversely there is no presto that does not need a quiet delivery by many places, so as not to throw away the chance of expressiveness by hurrying... Neither the quickening nor the slowing of the tempo should ever give the impression of the spasmodic or the violent. The changes, to have a musical-poetic significance, must come in an orderly way in periods and phrases, conditioned by the varying warmth of the expression. We have in music no signs for all this. They exist only in the sentient soul. If they are not there, then there is no help to be had from the metronome – which obviates only the grosser errors – nor from these extremely imperfect precepts of mine. View quote
Carl Maria von Weber
What would you give someone who likes to play the piano?” "A piano.” "Simon.” "A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon? View quote
Cassandra Clare
They're puttin' music to AIDS germs--putting a drum machine behind them and a metronome beat and Ted Turner's colorizing them, goddamn it. These aren't even really people, man. It's a CIA plot to make you think malls are good. Don't you see? View quote
Bill Hicks