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Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.

— Alison Moyet

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

— Levon Helm

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly.

— Richard LaGravenese

It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.

— Anton Seidl

A tune has to resonate with whatever is happening around it.

— Jeff Buckley

Before you worry about what genre it is, about whether it's a loop or a drum, it's about what suits the song. It's using what's within your reach, but also reaching for everything you can. I don't know if I always get it right, because I don't know every sound yet.

— Beth Orton

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

— Michael W. Smith

There's a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn't have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would've preferred to done them over.

— Branford Marsalis

Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'

— Dimebag Darrell

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

— Jordan Knight

✗Opposing Perspectives

I never think about rhythm versus melody; I've always just played to what's in my head.

— Les Claypool