"A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist."

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Source : Interview with Brian Feller, phish.net. April 18, 1993.

Mike Gordon

#Songwriting Quotes

“If Triple H asked you to jump off a bridge, would you? Because I think that's good for business.”
“Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number of literary geniuses, and at some level I probably never felt, having left as a toddler, that I had the right to try and add my voice. That's part of it. But I also didn't want to write something that was the equivalent of the Irish theme pub. You find them all over the world. The idea of producing a novel that might replicate that type of ersatz really set my teeth on edge.”
“I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.”
“What matters is who we are, not who we beat.”
“The journey is the destination. That's what you have to tell people.”
“Real teams are much more likely to flourish if leaders aim their sights on performance results that balance the needs of customers, employees, and shareholders.”

Source : Jon Katzenbach, Douglas Smith (2015). “The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the High-Performance Organization”, p.7, Harvard Business Review Press
“The visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable.”

Source : Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press
“The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.”

Source : Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.300, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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