T Bone Burnett: Perfection Is Second-Rate
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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What's Coming Out From Listening in the Silence?
In this song that you just sang, the hook has a repetition of a phrase. The first song you played did not have that, right? Isn't it interesting that when writing words, that certain words can be repeated often and it feels really good,. And other words, you repeat them and it feels like you can never repeat them. Some things become a chant. Yeswil, part of the conversation is what's coming out from listening in the silence, like, excellent. How does that work? How do we do that? I've noticed the difficulty in it, but i've never thought about why. But that one, this one here, i don't know, that's
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