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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: clarification

From: Don Tillman <don@...>
Date: 2004-01-26

> From: Babz <Babz@...>
> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 17:28:34 -0500
>
> I read an interview with Jon Anderson way back when (sometime in
> the 70s?) and he said that a lot of Yes lyrics don't really mean
> anything but are simply "words that sound good together."

Sure; it's 'impressionism' applied to lyrics.

(And Michael Stipe did the same basic thing a decade later with REM
lyrics.)

-- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
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