A Quote by Stewart D. Friedman
I've been writing for decades that balance is an inapt metaphor as it necessarily entails tradeoffs.
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Most of the time you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.
