Music Timing Quotes

I think it's beneficial to practice with a metronome or drum machine in order to strengthen your sense of time. It will help your concept of time and improve your feel.

The earliest you can play Christmas music is on Thanksgiving.

I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.

As a film composer I deal with short bursts of musical ideas that are defined to a large extent by what's happening on the screen, by not only narrative and action, but staying out of the way of dialogue, sound effects.

Like everything at Big Machine Label Group, the music comes out when it's ready.

I think that music at inappropriate times with inappropriate volumes can be the funniest thing ever.

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

I don't like singing before noon.

Coming into the music industry, even when I was a kid, one thing I learned is timing is everything. You being prepared is everything.

This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

I came late to Sandy Denny and Fairport Convention. I don't know why, but that's the beauty of music - songs and voices are there when you need them, when you're ready to find them, whether in their time or after.

We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire!

Dance music is Madonna's base. It's what she likes, it's what she listens to. It's not anything other than that. She doesn't read what's on the charts. And if it's on time, great. This is who she is.

Everybody who know Rick Ross know that, for one, I love creating music, and one of the biggest impacts we have on the game was the fact that when we came into the game, artists was waiting two to three years to put out albums. I was one of the few that put out an album every year along with two or three mixtapes.

America was the one territory where they didn't release 'Nights In White Satin' at the time it was made. It was about three or four months later, after 'Tuesday Afternoon,' so I think we have a special fondness for it.

The theatre is not the place for the musician. When the curtain is up the music interrupts the actor, and when it is down the music interrupts the audience.

I don't think comic timing is the same as music timing, but I definitely find that I've learned from just writing in general that songs can be narrative without having a story.

All of one's life is music, if one touches the notes rightly, and in time.

A montage is incredibly challenging. When I can, I'd like to know what the music is going to be ahead of time because that will affect the beat, the pace of the montage.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

I think great scores have to be noticed, but they're wrong when you hear the music come in.

I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.