When you're writing with an artist or for an artist, you have to help them serve their vision. That's the cool part about writing songs. There are no rules.
Interpretation
Writing songs for artists involves collaboration to realize their creative vision.
This quote emphasizes the importance of collaboration in artistic endeavors, particularly in songwriting. It suggests that the writer's role is to support and enhance the artist's vision, allowing for creativity to flourish without being bound by strict rules. This freedom in artistic expression is what makes songwriting exciting and unique.
In practice
Using this quote when discussing the creative process in a songwriting workshop.
I didn't know they would pay you money to sit in a room and write songs for other people. I always thought that George Strait was singing a song, he made it up, and that was the end of it. But the instant I found that out, that that could be a job, I thought, 'That's the job for me. I gotta figure out how to do that.'
I like things that don't sound particularly processed or mechanical or made by machines. I like music that contains human elements, with all their flaws. There's air in it, and you can hear a room of a bunch of guys playing. Those are the magic parts.
I'm gonna keep making music that hopefully I think is good, and whatever comes out of that, that will be fine with me.
Art is the production of objects for consumption, to be used and discarded while waiting for a new world in which man will have succeeded in freeing himself of everything, even of his own consciousness.
To me, a building - if it's beautiful - is the love of one man, he's made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that.
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more.
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