"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."

Music, Songs

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"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."

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"A song is anything that can walk by itself."

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"People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas."

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"This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"88% of what we call good songs aren't really good. They merely remind us of a good time we once had."

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"We became the songs we wrote."

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"We became the songs we wrote."

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"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."

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"You've got to really be able to accept the rejection."

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"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."

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"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."

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"I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows."

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"There's so much fear involved in trying to do something you don't know how to do that drugs and alcohol can become a big part of your life if you have an addictive personality or are very unsure, which most songwriters are."

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"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."

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"We've written something like 900 songs in all."

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"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."

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