19 Quotes by Bill Henderson

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    There is a real trick to it. Once you learn how chords, notes, rhythms and rhymes work - and these are the tools you need - then you lay in wait for the muse. You lure it in and trap it, and once it's there you try not to wreck it. You try to preserve the beauty of what you've been given and turn it into a song.

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    I always wanted to help other people outside of my job. It's so rewarding being able to get out and help people.

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    I think that with the girls we have coming back, we are very optimistic. We have some things to build on, and, if things go our way, we can be one of the top three teams in the section.

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    We can't work on those streets with state funds because they're off the state system. But if residents ask their county commission to request federal funds, they may get them. Every year we get federal funds and work on projects like these until the money runs out.

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    Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how things are perceived. The most mystifying thing is why a certain combination of words and melody will blow people's minds, while others - which is 99.9 percent of all songs - fall flat. That for me was the search: to discover how to create songs that had that quality.

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    We had some physical errors, and those will happen. But our kids stepped up, and they settled down late in the game.

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    We spend a lot of time advising multinationals on how to hold on to their best people.

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