Originally Posted by Colin Ward
I heard Bob Dylan say something along those lines (although his are a hundred million times more successful than mine!!) - he said he had no idea where his big ones from the early days came from.


This reminds me of my favorite Keith Richards quote. I'll try to get it right, but he was sometimes hard to understand:-)

Someone asked him how he "created" his songs, and Mr. Richards replied:

I don't really create. I leave creating to God. I just try to capture something that's already there.

I know that we work hard to craft, and some songs take a lot more effort to "capture properly", whereas others take as long to write as they take to sing. One minute you're delivering pizza, and by the time you finish the delivery, a whole song has appeared.

On the other hand, it once took me 24 years to finish a song. I had the opening line, and nothing else. I'd tinker with it every now and then, but could never get the second @$%%$^$%^Line...Or at least not one that led anywhere else.

And then one night, for no apparent reason, because I wasn't even thinking about writing at that moment, the second line came floating in...20 minutes later, the whole song was done.

20-4-frickin' years!!!

And because I know someone may be curious: In 1983, at the end of a college term(I was a 26 year old freshman), a woman in a playwrighting class said "F-it, I'm going to Barbados and write the Great American Novel before some M-F-er drops the bomb".

We exchanged a few letters over the summer, and then lost track of each other...That's the brief "History", here is the first line:

Did you ever write your novel, while living in Barbados?

24 years later:

Entranced by crystal waters, and seducing cabana boys.

24 frickin' years...Believe me, if I had any idea where lyrics come from, I'd be glad to share and save someone else from aggravation!

Midnite

Satchel was right. Something is gaining on me.

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