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Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin cover image

John Mayer

Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin

CHAPTER

The Importance of Listening to Music

I was only writing one at a time. And you've got to write 10 or 12 at a time for a record. So you made eight. I think I have a pretty good, like looking back on it now, like a pretty good percentage of songs that haven't rotted out. Some do. But there seems to be like an inverse ratio of uncool to longevity. The more sort of quote unquote uncool something is in the moment, the more mileage it might have in it. It's interesting to go back now and see that if you take away the commercial result of these songs and just put them on the table, I think the crowd is watching me look through them

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