One guy talks about a singer and says: "his greatest gift is his imagination but it's also sometimes his worst enemy, in that to tie himself to one idea (in a song) can be torture for him. He'd sooner have ten ideas in one song.
--- Does it mean that he would prefer to have "ten ideas in one song" rather than just one?
Top answer
Yes. The speaker might be implying that he'd rather have ten ideas in one song than ten songs each having one idea.
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Yes.
The speaker might be implying that he'd rather have ten ideas in one song than ten songs each having one idea.
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