Paul Simon on how Bridge Over Troubled Water came into being

Do ideas ever come out of nowhere?
Sometimes.
If you’re really lucky.
But most of the time it’s just a question of assembling things that already exist into something new.
In this amazing clip Paul Simon explains how 'Bridge Over Troubled Water’, one of the greatest songs of the 20th century, pieced itself together from a Bach chorale, some Gospel chord changes and a snatched phrase of scat singing.
The more curious we are, the more we look and listen, and the more we look and listen, the more creative we become.
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