The songwriter mustn't fall in love with his own song. If it doesn't belong, he can't push it into a show. Let him save it; maybe it'll fit in another show.
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One of the greatest tools you have as a songwriter is anonymity. If someone knows too much about the songwriter, they don't get to insert their own characters. I don't want the audience thinking about the gay guy who wrote the song.
A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that.
It's like, it's up to the people to fall in love with the song. The record company can only do so much.
We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.
I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
I'm not deciding what the artist is going to write about because it's the artist. They're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life. When they're old and they're 80 and they have their show in Vegas, they're gonna have to sing that song for the rest of their life.
If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.
The songs become the show, which is how it should be.
A songwriter should have friends who are similarly interested; should move about in the milieu of work he has chosen for himself.
Nothing can stop a great song, so just keep songwriting.
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