John

John: I just tried...

John: I just tried...

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was...

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John: I've never had...

John: I've never had...

I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And...

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John: Writing is about...

John: Writing is about...

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what?s not supposed to be there.

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John: I guess if...

John: I guess if...

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

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John: If I get...

John: If I get...

If I get stuck early in a song, I take it as a sign that I might be writing the chorus and don't know it....

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John: You know that...

John: You know that...

You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten...

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John: The best way...

John: The best way...

The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps...

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John: My music has...

John: My music has...

My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you...

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John: I started out...

John: I started out...

I started out in the folk music world only because of the way my songs were written and performed, with just an...

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John: You get to...

John: You get to...

You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when...

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John: I could never...

John: I could never...

I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good...

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John: I think if...

John: I think if...

I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing...

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John: Soon as I...

John: Soon as I...

Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold. Music was...

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John: Blow up your...

John: Blow up your...

Blow up your TV, throw away your paper /?Go to the country, build you a home /?Plant a little garden, eat a lot of...

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John: I didn't expect...

John: I didn't expect...

I didn't expect to do this for a living, being a recording artist, i was just playing music for the fun of it and...

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