Music is a Business/Songwriting is an Art. Quantifying the two is a Skill best-expressed as "Fifty-Fifty" when Lyrics-meet-Melody, in All-Fairness. Otherwise, Lawyers take over both the Business AND the Art part..as it looks like they've already succeeded in doing..No?

I get BOTH Words AND Music as I write..but CHOOSE to get a Musician-Involved BECAUSE I want a Better SONG..and because I don't have TIME to learn an instrument/re-learn how to run a Studio/or have much money/etc-etc-etc.

Words ARE Everywhere..& SO ARE Notes. But each side of the Spectrum has a GIFT at How-To-Arrange these. I can take YOUR MELODY and fit Good WORDS to Them, just as You can take MY Words and fit MUSIC to it.

Now, I understand how Polly's real-protective of her Musical Partner/I respect both her & her Guitar-Guy's Credentials & Dues-payings as-well. But she kinda disrespects the Other Side of The Fence's dues-paying IMHO. I've spent literally THOUSANDS of Hours UN-PAID as I mastered this craft. (Vs making $45-100 an hour fixing clocks.) Travelled MANY a Time to US's Music Capitals getting to know people/learning The Game/& yeah, writing with some of the Bigger Folks, "Working My Way Up/Building Credibility" JUST like her Guitar Hero did. Mostly All On My Own Nickel.

We serious Lyricists don't GET the Crowd-Adulation On The Way Up...but...we DO like a little Appreciation...AND a Fair Split...WHEN that Song DOES get to the Recorded State.

WISH I could remember Names...can't..but there's a tale of this Famous Composer's Wife, accompanied by his Lyricist's Wife...at this Big Soiree..& an Onlooker's Wife says "OH..Your Husband wrote "Fill in Name of Famous SONG Here" and Lyricist's Wife says "No..MY Husband wrote that...HERS wrote "Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Da-Dum"....

R-E-S-P-E-C-T...(I also forget the Rest of those Words...but..that's what I'm Gettin'-At here today.)

Best Wishes/Big 50-50 Hugs,
Stan

Last edited by "Tampa Stan" Good; 10/02/10 01:21 PM.