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Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?

— Jonny Greenwood

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The thing I try to do the most is to play in terms of the song and play in terms of what I'm hearing.

— Jimmy Chamberlin

I am never excited to play through a song all the way, because it can reveal more flaws that mean more work. For some reason, I always have an irrational fear that the song will never be finished.

— Robert Lopez

I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.

— R. Kelly

Thinking about what songs are coming next instead of just relaxing, breathing and playing from my heart. Sometimes it can get to be almost like the enemy.

— Rick Allen

You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along.

— Edie Brickell

You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.

— Jan Garbarek

Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.

— Kristin Hersh

I just try to get inside the song and imagine what comes next.

— Jeff Tweedy

With a good melody... music gets me through everything.

— Drake Bell

✗Opposing Perspectives

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick.

— Jakob Dylan