Holly Knight
The Bob Lefsetz Podcast
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How to Write a Great Song
I'm not just a fan of straight ahead bands like Led Zeppelin or The Beatles. I love jazz. I grew up with all different kinds of music and classical, which I still love. For instance, I'm really into writing bass lines and the relationship of the bass lines to the chords are different than the normal. But I think also, simpler is better. It's not about quantity. It's about quality. Even when we wrote Love's a Battlefield, we wrote the whole thing on one day but then we spent another week coming up with the one line. We came up with hundreds. That was eight years ago. Anytime I've tried to do that, I've written
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