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Songville: SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #21 - Robert Schumann)
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #21 - Robert Schumann). To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.". Thanks to Glenn Teal). Posted by Carolyn Arends. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What's Your All-Time Favorite Lyric? Write Better Lyrics Series (Starts Here). Songville Says Quote Series (Starts Here). Subscribe to Songville by Email. Songwriting is a wonderful job/hobby/vocation/. Most importa...
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Songville: January 2009
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #15) - Bono. You can have 1000 ideas, but unless you capture an emotion, it's an essay.". Thanks to Greg Norlin. Posted by Carolyn Arends. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What's Your All-Time Favorite Lyric? Write Better Lyrics Series (Starts Here). Songville Says Quote Series (Starts Here). Subscribe to Songville by Email. Songwriting is a wonderful job/hobby/vocation/. WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU.
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Songville: May 2009
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #16 - Nick Lowe). Thanks to Mike Turitzen's excellent The Songwriting Process. Site for discovering this quote in Vanity Fair). Posted by Carolyn Arends. Links to this post. Jonathan Coulton Demonstrates Super Cool Lyric Technique. One of Songville's fine neighbours, Spencer Capier. Just sent me this video for "The Future Soon" by Jonathan Coulton. Pay special attention to these lyrics:. See what we mean? Posted...
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Songville: November 2008
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #14) - Guthrie. A folk song is what's wrong and how to fix it or it could be who's hungry and where their mouth is or who's out of work and where the job is or who's broke and where the money is or who's carrying a gun and where the peace is.". Posted by Carolyn Arends. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What's Your All-Time Favorite Lyric? Write Better Lyrics Series (Starts Here). For CHRISTIANITY ...
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Songville: SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #22 - Steve Bell)
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #22 - Steve Bell). Taken from Steve's Great "Happy New Year" blog post. Posted by Carolyn Arends. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What's Your All-Time Favorite Lyric? Write Better Lyrics Series (Starts Here). Songville Says Quote Series (Starts Here). Subscribe to Songville by Email. Songwriting is a wonderful job/hobby/vocation/. Got a great story or tip you wanna share? WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU. Carolyn ...
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Songville: SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #20 - Anton Chekhov)
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #20 - Anton Chekhov). Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.". Posted by Carolyn Arends. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What's Your All-Time Favorite Lyric? Write Better Lyrics Series (Starts Here). Songville Says Quote Series (Starts Here). Subscribe to Songville by Email. Songwriting is a wonderful job/hobby/vocation/. Got a great story or tip you wanna share? Carol...
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Songville: January 2010
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. Songs as Hopeful Defiance. I commend to you this Huffington Post blogpost from Jonathan Foreman. About the power of words. Here are some highlights:. To create is to cosign the Maker's checks. Is worth a read - take it in and write it out! Posted by Carolyn Arends. Links to this post. Procrastination - The Songwriter's Nemesis. I loved this from P.J. O'Rourke. The Wit and Wisdom of P. J. O’Rourke. Posted by Carolyn Arends. Calling/habit/ad...
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Songville: Write Better Lyrics: Does Your Subject Matter Matter?
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. Write Better Lyrics: Does Your Subject Matter Matter? But where to begin? Over a couple of decades of banging my head against the songwriting wall, I've found myself asking the same 15 or so questions to try to get to the bottom of lyric problems. In the hopes of saving your forehead at least a little bruising, I'm going to share these questions with you. So - here is Lyric Question No. 1:. DOES YOUR SUBJECT MATTER MATTER? Still, lovely (a...
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Songville: July 2009
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. SONGVILLE SAYS (Great Quote #21 - Robert Schumann). To compose music, all you have to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.". Thanks to Glenn Teal). Posted by Carolyn Arends. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What's Your All-Time Favorite Lyric? Write Better Lyrics Series (Starts Here). Songville Says Quote Series (Starts Here). Subscribe to Songville by Email. Songwriting is a wonderful job/hobby/vocation/.
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Songville: Daily Routines
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Words Music. Rhymes. Reasons. Craft. Inspiration. The Good Stuff. Check out this great site for the daily routines of famous creative types:. Http:/ dailyroutines.typepad.com/. It's intriguing to note how many prolific writers have religiously observed rituals. Got any? Posted by Carolyn Arends. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). What's Your All-Time Favorite Lyric? Write Better Lyrics Series (Starts Here). Songville Says Quote Series (Starts Here). Subscribe to Songville by Email. Most importantly, I a...
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