Fast Tempo Quotes

We're definitely a metal band. We push a lot of boundaries. But at the core we're a metal band.

It is never right to play ragtime fast.

Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.

I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

To me, 'Crash Love' is the most stripped-down record that we've made since the early Nineties, and I would say that 'I Hope You Suffer' is indicative of the overall tone of this record in being the opposite of that.

If you like energy, if you like attitude, if you like tough beats with black rhythms with a bit of soul and a bit of realness, come and check out the Prodigy.

The music I write is very melodic, very catchy, and fast.

It's hard to dance to really fast music. All you can do is pump your fist to it, and after a while, you're going to have a seizure.

Oh, I was a real Nirvana kid. I got into jazz because I listened to a lot of metal, Megadeth and that, and those guys play really fast and are virtuosos. I wanted to learn more about it, and I discovered that a lot of jazz guys played really fast, too.

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.

There are no prog elements to Adrenaline Mob; it's very song-oriented, with shredding and grooves.

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

Bebop is the music of the future (as soon as they learn how to play it).

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight.

Basically, death metal, as a musician on my part, it just changed everything as far as the technicality and where you could take music.

The harder stuff has always done it for me. Man, if it rips, I'll give it a thumbs up!

I tried to make a honky-tonk country record - rough-hewn, cut fast, and all analog - like I wasn't hearing anymore.

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

'Barracuda' is very fun to play because it's like a galloping steed of a rock song.

If there's anybody who's new to what I do, who maybe heard 'Liberation' or some of the songs off 'Epicloud' and thought, 'This is really cool, I could get into this,' you're going to hate 'Casualties.'

Beyonce's 'Bow Down,' to me, that could be a grime tune. If it's electronic and 140-ish bpm, and people go crazy to it, to me, that's grime.

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music - you can't do that in jazz. You can't do that with classical.

I have always tended toward extremism: I'm Motorhead rather than REO Speedwagon.