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"Writing a song is much like being an author. Yes, we all have tools to write (everyone has a brain I hope!), but that doesn't all of a sudden make us best selling authors."
Selling
"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."
Food
"Composers, like authors, have a lot in common. Our main goal is to connect with the listener emotionally."
Goal
"The prime goal of an author is the same as a musician, which is to emotionally connect with the reader in some way or another."
Goal
"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
Flowers
"The most important thing is that you like the music."
Music
"People don't have fun making music all the time."
Music
"If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it."
Music
"If our main goal is to connect emotionally, we should want to have as many tools as we possibly can to achieve that goal. The more abilities that we have, the more choices we can make musically."
Goal
"Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time."
Time
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"I was studying acting, going to UCLA, selling real estate on the weekends."
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Personal Development
"Commercials were too phony for me. I just didn't like selling products I didn't believe in."
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Personal Development
"And now, of course this is another thing I didn't count on, that now as the governor of the state of California, I am selling California worldwide. You see that? Selling."
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Personal Development
"I knew I was doing something right because it was selling so I didn't want to interfere with it."
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Personal Development
"I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that."
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Personal Development
"The simplest definition of advertising, and one that will probably meet the test of critical examination, is that advertising is selling in print."
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Personal Development
"Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm."
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Personal Development
"I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line."
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Personal Development
"I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm going to emerge then submerge."
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Personal Development
"I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles."
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Personal Development
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