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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

- J. D. Souther
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I don't want to think that anything is off limits for me to write about, but I also don't want to intrude on anybody's life, which is why there's very little specificity or names in the songs I write.

I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.

I'm not a great band member; I'm more of a band leader.

Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.

I love Massachusetts for a number of reasons. I once loved a magical girl who lived in a magnificently converted barn, a half-hour or so from Boston. I love your winters. I love the snow.

I was never much of a club guy. Even when I was in New York in the early eighties, I never was once in Studio 54. It was too noisy. My version of those years mostly took place at my house.

When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.

I'm a huge Robert Altman fan and don't take issue with his filmmaking, as eccentric as it is. But I just think 'Nashville' was a world he didn't know.

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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.