Are great songwriters born or made?
Great songwriters aren’t born—they’re made.
What inspires a person to write a song?
You find that you can write music even if nothing powerfully emotional is happening in your life. In this sense, inspiration is a sense of motivation (a desire to write) coupled with an innate ability to assemble music purely from your imagination. Inspiration: the continually-replenishing desire to keep writing.
What is intuition and how does it affect songwriting?
Intuition, channeled through stream-of-consciousness songwriting, can be a mind-opening experience and lead to incredibly creative lyrical places that might be inaccessible otherwise. Humans are also pretty darn capable of empathy, personally and emotionally feeling and experiencing something others are going through.
Are young people at a disadvantage when it comes to writing songs?
There are only so many experiences one person can have in life, and younger people are at an even greater disadvantage. At some point in time, you will run out of ideas to write about if you’re solely drawing from your own life. And, let’s be honest, not everything that happens in life is interesting enough to write a song about.
Should a song be written from a story or experience?
Much like the age-old songwriting soup-versus-salad debate, there’s a lot of disagreement between camps over whether a song should be deliberately written from your hard-fought experiences in life or from stories made up in your head.
How does an artist’s life influence his/her work?
Consequently those experiences add flavor to every brush stroke, keystroke, or stroke of a pen. Everything we see, hear, experience, and etc. becomes a part of who we are, and when an artist creates his or her work, those influences are bound to affect the work in some way. An artist’s life can have a huge influence on his/her work.