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“In a screening room at network headquarters in New York, two CBS vice presidents watched the show in silence. ‘Neither of them laughed once,’ Mendelson recalled. ‘When the lights came on, the executives shook their heads and shrugged. “Well,” said one, “you gave it a good try.” “It seems a little flat,” said the other. “Too slow,” said the first, “and the script is too innocent.” “The Bible thing scares us,” said the other.’ The animation was crude — couldn’t it be jazzed up a bit? The voice talent was unprofessional — they should have used adults. The music didn’t fit — who ever heard of a jazz score on an animated special? And where were the laughs?’”

– The show was A Charlie Brown Christmas, the most successful special in television history. From Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography by David Michael.

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“I write backward — I write the music first and then I write the words. Most people write the words first and then they write the music. Keith Richards was explaining his method of songwriting. He calls it ‘vowel movement.’ They come up with a riff, and it’s like sounds, and whatever sound . . . like ‘start me up’ — ‘up’ works because it has a consonant at the end of it, but if you go ‘take me home,’ it wouldn’t have worked. I kind of subscribe to that. It has to sound right sometimes even more than being a poetic lyric. It’s a struggle to fit words onto music, and I want it to be really, really good, so I take a long time. I love having written, but I hate writing.”

- Billy Joel, to Andrew Goldman in The New York Times, May 24, 2013

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