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P.S. 5 Creative Lessons From Sondheim
"Content dictates form"
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Jillian Hess
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Stephen Sondheim's Musical Puzzles
"All art—symphonies, architecture, novels—it’s all puzzles...It’s the creation of form out of chaos."
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Re-Noted: Eminem's Boxes of Notes
“the Bruce Lee of loose leaf”
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P.S. Bob Dylan's Love of Archives and Notes for "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall"
"I crammed my head full of as much of this stuff as I could stand & locked it away in my mind out of sight, left it alone. Figured I could send a truck…
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Jillian Hess
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Bob Dylan's Creative Notes
"dry vermouth / and you’ll tell the truth"
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P.S. Kurt Cobain's Riotous Art
"I just got up and got drugs and listened to music and painted and played the guitar. That’s about it."
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Jillian Hess
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Re-Noted: Kurt Cobain's Spiral Notebooks
"Don't read my diary...please read my diary. Look through my things and figure me out."
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P.S. Tupac Shakur's Love Notes
"...let us forget the world"
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Jillian Hess
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Tupac Shakur's Revolutionary Notes
"While others giggled and joked I would watch & take notes"
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P.S. Jonathan Larson's Bohemian Notes
"Bohemia is dead"
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Jonathan Larson's Notes for Rent
"Love = fire = disease = art = life"
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P.S. Eminem's Visual Imagination
“Drawing has always been a way for me to relax. It still is.”
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