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"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
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"I've written songs sober and I've written songs high."
Music
"I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction."
Direction
"You have to be very brave in that first writing session."
First
"If we were the team that won out, then life was good and we felt that we were worth something."
Life
"I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs."
Time
"I know at the beginning of our careers, my wife and I were gut wrenchingly competitive."
Wife
"It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive."
Nature
"Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability."
Success
"The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high."
Danger
"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."
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"One must indeed test the strings to this life, bounce the bow, wet the mouthpiece, prepare for the deeper music that follows."
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"There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is."
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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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"You can cage the singer but not the song."
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"For the eye has this strange property: it rests only on beauty."
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"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."
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"We could argue about what constitutes the creepiest line in pop music, but for me it's early Beatles- John Lennon, actually- singing 'I'd rather see you dead, little girl, than to be with another man."
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"Music fills the void between the heart and soul and connects them in heavenly delights."
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"Music is the fastest motivator in the world."
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