I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll see that a lot of them were songwriters like Lionel Richie. I mean, they were able to control their own destiny.
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I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.
I grew up when the whole Motown thing was huge. The charts in those days were dominated by groups more than solo artists at one point.
The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.
A lot of the great songwriters in history have been collaborators, with a separate lyricist.
I was one of those guys, you know, playing and singing, and there was no reason for me to write a song, because there were so many beautiful songs out. And Bob Dylan was always the ultimate songwriter, and nobody could ever write a song as good as him, and nobody ever has written a song as good as him.
After a while, though, the group just wasn't a good vehicle for the songs I'd written.
I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.
I see what other people do and what songwriters don't. They don't get out and take care of themselves. Producers turn themselves into a massive brand. Songwriters tend to be under someone else's umbrella. If you're building your own legacy, it can't be under an umbrella.
Most of the people who write pop music were outsiders at some time in their life.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
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