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Tyler Cowen: belief

18 Jan 2023 Conversations with Tyler Rick Rubin on Listening, Taste, and the Act of Noticing

“You’re at Abbey Road Studio, and George Harrison thinks Paul McCartney wants to put too complex a bass line into something, or into While My Guitar Gently Weeps, which in my opinion made those songs much, much better.”

— Tyler Cowen

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Tyler Cowen
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
18 Jan 2023
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Maybe. I feel like getting someone to do what you want—that’s not the reason for somebody to do something. I don’t like that idea. Say you’re George Martin. You’re at Abbey Road Studio, and George Harrison thinks Paul McCartney wants to put too complex a bass line into something, or into While My Guitar Gently Weeps, which in my opinion made those songs much, much better. You’ve got to persuade someone of something, right? I don’t know about that. And I’m not sure that that’s how it went down. Do you know what I’m saying?…

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