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Steve Lacy Says the Key to Making Good Music Is to Make Bad Music · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Steve Lacey's sophomore album,
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  Speaker 1: Gemini Wrights, ended up changing his life thanks to its
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  Speaker 1: viral smash Bad Habit, which is one of ten songs
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  Speaker 1: that made the final cut for its track list. A
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  Speaker 1: relatively small collection of songs from now and particularly in
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  Speaker 1: this streaming age, but that's not because of a lack
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  Speaker 1: of material anything, but Steve tells another magazine he wrote,
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  Speaker 1: produced and recorded more than three hundred songs for the project,
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  Speaker 1: and he advisedes all aspiring artists to follow suits, saying,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like the studio was at jim I was
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  Speaker 1: getting my represent I made a bunch of crap to
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  Speaker 1: get to this. I meet new musicians and they'll ask
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  Speaker 1: what do you do, and I say, you gotta make trash.
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  Speaker 1: You can't skip the trash. You can't just conceptualize a
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  Speaker 1: good idea. You gotta make some bs first in order
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  Speaker 1: to get there. I made a lot of it to
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  Speaker 1: get to this. I've got some fun demos though. That
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  Speaker 1: habits out now, that's Direct from Hollywood.