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Dolly Parton is burning up, not burning out

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Songwriting - How Do You Avoid Burning Out?

I just write what I feel. Vonnegut wrote about swoopers and bashers where swoopers basically pour out the ideas. And bashers actually fine tune every word and every sentence as they go. Which one are you when you write a song? I'm all over the place. Sometimes the melody comes first, sometimes just some words I've got. But for the most part, they pretty much fall at the same time.

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