I'M A SONGWRITER..sort of a musical mad scientist. I mix ingredients and hope that magic will happen.
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And we songwriters know what magic is because we carry our heros and their songs with us everywhere we go.
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Gershwin, Mozart, The Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, Joni Mitchell, Otis Redding, Leadbelly, Cole Porter, James Taylor, Fredric Chopin, Merle Haggard, Billy Strayhorn, Lowell George, Irving Berlin, Johnny Mercer, Laura Nyro, Leon Russell, Carol King, John Prine, Antonio Carlos Job...