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• Eva Walker : 02/01/2022 11:20 AM
  Although he wrote lyrics that are easy to understand, Withers described himself as a "Lyrics Snob." He explained: "It's very difficult to make things simple and understandable. You ever sit down and have a conversation with somebody who took their formal education too seriously, and they're speaking and throwing in a bunch of words that you don't have a ready meaning for? You're sitting there nodding because you don't want them to think you're stupid, but what you really think is, there's a lot of easier ways to say it, and you wonder if they even know what they're talking about or if they're just showing off. To me, the biggest challenge in the world is to take anything that's complicated and make it simple so it can be understood by the masses. Somebody said a long time ago that the world was designed by geniuses, but it's run by idiots. I'm a stickler for saying something the simplest possible way with some elements of poetry. Simple is memorable. If something's too complicated, you're not going to walk around humming it to yourself because it's too hard to remember. The key is to make somebody not only remember it, but recall it over and over and over again." -- Here's a KEXP remembrance of Bill Withers, who died in March, 2020 at the age of 81.: https://www.kexp.org/read/2020/4/3/rip-bill-withers/
• Eva Walker : 07/08/2021 12:18 PM
  Here's a KEXP remembrance of Bill Withers, who died in March, 2020 at the age of 81. Bill Withers once said “I’m not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with. I don’t think I’ve done bad for a guy from Slab Fork, West Virginia.” https://www.kexp.org/read/2020/4/3/rip-bill-withers/
• DJ Miss Ashley : 05/25/2021 12:53 PM
  Here's a KEXP remembrance of Bill Withers, who died in March, 2020 at the age of 81. Bill Withers once said “I’m not a virtuoso, but I was able to write songs that people could identify with. I don’t think I’ve done bad for a guy from Slab Fork, West Virginia.”: https://www.kexp.org/read/2020/4/3/rip-bill-withers/
• John Richards : 10/09/2020 07:15 AM
  Watch the Oakland Symphony play a stunning version of this uplifting anthem: https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/06/04/watch-oakland-symphony-delivers-stunning-version-of-bill-withers-lean-on-me/ Join KEXP's chorus of unity and encouragement when you donate today: https://www.kexp.org/donate/
• Morgan : 07/04/2020 12:09 PM
  Bill Withers was born on this date in 1938.

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