The Mystery of Mastery with Adam Gopnik
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The intersection of emotions and ideas in essay writing and songwriting
Paul Simon: I'm good at shaping sentences. That's the form I love most in the world, is the essay. And there's no form known to man in which ideas and emotions come into such intimate entanglement as in songs. So anybody who can write one good song, one memorable song, has got a little bit of purchase on immortality.
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