A Quote by Jerry Cantrell
Every record, you've got more experiences to draw on as a writer and a musician.
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I was always interested in being a writer. Yet, at the time, it somehow seemed more unfeasible to be a writer than a musician.
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Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
I'm a musician, I always was a musician, and now I've got a song on the radio, so I'm definitely a musician.
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