OFF: When the well runs dry (was: BOC: CotHM)

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In a message dated 6/26/01 8:51:24 PM, ma-paharper at IOPENER.NET writes:

<<  Remember, after 30 years in the business,
 > most people don't
 > > have the same fire for writing.  As their lives
 > change and become
 > > more mature and loaded with responsibilities, their
 > approach to
 > > songwriting changes.

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well,  song ideas kinda just pop out of your head
[to which one may have been accustomed]
or they do not.

and when they dont,
one might think
"what's wrong?
where did they go?
what have i done"
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lolol Duke Ellington was apparently an exception to this....

but rock music is generally not scored on paper.

i dont understand  why such an ability would be _finite_, and yet...

i wrote about 4 lp's worth of stuff [as if y'all noticed]
it's not as if this hinges upon financial "success"
that would _not_ be a condition of one doing it.

but there's a lot to be said for paying the bills, so...

i have yet to figure it all out.
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no viagra for rock songwriters...

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