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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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"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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"Strains of music spring up, crystallizing in the night air like rain turning suddenly to snow, drifting to earth."
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"A tapping foot isn't the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think."
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"And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around."
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"I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition."
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"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music."
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"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it."
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"I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise."
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"Childhood is a promise that is never kept."
Childhood
"Music is an art form. It is a way to wordlessly communicate."
Art
"People don't have fun making music all the time."
Music
"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
Flowers
"Music is an art form too. Sometimes other forms of art can be inspiring to the musician."
Art
"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
"Sometimes I will click on a random sequence of notes- not to actually use it in a song, but to see if I can find maybe a simple pattern that I can build off of."
Music
"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion."
Idea
"If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it."
Music
"Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing."
Mistake
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