I just think this is people who are chronically looking for ways to be upset about things.
Scott WalkerWell, weโre going to start in a couple weeks with our budget adjustment bill. The first step is weโre going to deal with collective bargaining for all public employee unions, because you use divide and conquer.
Scott WalkerI'm not so in with the prescriptive avant-garde agenda. I can do that sort of thing, but I feel that I'm still interested enough in song structure. When I look at a lyric on the page, the lyric is alive to me, looking like soldiers in a field. I can move it around, and it's very black-and-white.
Scott WalkerThe harder part of doing a real story is that there are real people and you have a responsibility to not just go crazy with their lives and have them do things which are not their character, that they then have to live with.
Scott WalkerWhen I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets.
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