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"A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself."
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"The world system is employment."

"My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer."
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"Work was intended not to give a man a reason to live, but rather to give him a means to live."
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"There aren't more lady songwriters for the same reason that there aren't more lady doctors or lady accountants or lady lawyers; not enough women have the time for careers."

"Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?"

"The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show."

"The man in our society is the breadwinner; the woman has enough to do as the homemaker, wife and mother."

"I do not think men have more talent. There are a great many women in the arts; novelists, painters, sculptors, poets-but the proportion is far lower in the field of song writing."

"We've accumulated a lot of things over the years and many things from our grandmother. Hopefully it'll be all right. I really don't want to cry, but I can't help it."
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