Simplicity is hard-won
!If I had more time, I’d write you a shorter letter
Mary Gauthier says songwriting is like waiting for a demi-glace to reduce. Songwriting is reduction.1
!Anyone can make a song complicated —Pete Seeger
!Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity —Plato
!Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
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Saved by a Song pg. 30 ↩
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