People ask what was the first piece of music I wrote. There was no first piece.
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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
I actually am always a music first person.
I never excluded any genre on my first record.
I probably wrote three-quarters of the songs without an instrument in my hands.
Our songs were not written to be listened to in headphones or on the radio. They were written to be played. All of the little infinite detail that went into the arrangements and giving ourselves lots of breathing room in terms of playing what we wanted to play and using up any ideas that we had - all of those were conceived to be performed.
I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
I was a musician first before anything.
Either your understanding of the meaning of music is there from the beginning or it is not.
Music was the first art form I ever had.