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• But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the… — Warren Zevon
• More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer
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• Composers tend to assume that everyone loves music. Surprisingly enough, everyone doesn’t. — Aaron Copland
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