phrases

“He’s completing phrases on the next chord change instead of singing a single sentence within chord changes. It’s very sophisticated writing,” Yoakam said of Byrd Gene Clark as we listened to the song together, like two undergraduates in a dorm room bonding over our favorite albums.

A few years back he started singing words and phrases in his car at night, then had them sampled, looped and chopped up to form compositions.

“He just had me sing some melodies, or create sounds with my voice that might match or complement or counterpoint the words and phrases,” Gershon said.

That young Zuck feels leagues away from today’s Mark Zuckerberg, who’s now designing his own streetwear-inspired T-shirts, emblazoned with Latin phrases, which he’ll occasionally accessorize with a gold chain.

As a youngster in Cyprus, she says she would hear phrases like "oh you're a woman, if you become a surgeon or a doctor you won't have time for your family, you won't have a family".