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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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"Minds are like flowers. If you let it sit there without soaking anything up, it will dry up."
Flowers
"If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it."
Music
"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
"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
"Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down."
Food
"The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal."
Voice
"Sometimes just getting out of the house and doing something you haven't done in a long time (or never done!) can open up the doors to musical inspiration."
Time
"Hooks need to be predictable and not predictable at the same time."
Time
"I have come up with very creative ideas that really didn't work with the song I was currently composing."
Work
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