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17/03/2019 6:58 pm
First I want to express my gratitude to the management of Songwriter Junction for creation of this site. Then I would like to send my greetings to all my friends who, I hope, are or will be here on this site.
Now about my topic.
Well, we all, or most of us, and I am sure about that, would like to create something great. Maybe a new engine, maybe a medicine cure, to write a bestseller, to produce a movie, and some of us would like to compose music with the most beautiful lyrics (money can buy). OK, that does not happen to all of us, but one never knows. Would be nice to achieve even a fraction of success as Beatles or Elvis Presley.
In my case, money is not why I write music or songs.
In my case I would like to leave something for posterity, to create it with love for music and leave some of my thoughts in-bedded in it. So my name wouldn't be only a number in matrix records.
I am probably one of the oldest, if not the oldest member on this site, so my point of view might be slightly different from yours, you youngsters, but my dreams are still young as ever.
Of course, I am yellow with envy thinking about Mozart, or Beethoven, who, as it looks, are going to live happily ever after. So as the Beetles, after they all die. They will live in every note and every word of their music. Music gurus will be making theories and expressing their findings similar as many preachers trying to explain Bible the way they read it. The difference is that music these days is recorded or written and printed the way the composer wanted it. Therefore, we are not to give up dreaming about our music, or songs, being firmly stuck in time, to tell our story.
Maybe eternity???
17/03/2019 7:20 pm
We are on the same page Otto. I couldn't have said it better.
18/03/2019 8:19 pm
Ditto Otto and John
Music is an international language, say it with a song. deaconmusic4u@gmail.com
19/03/2019 1:44 pm
Everyone would like to write something that goes on long after us. It's called "LEGACY" writing. A key to that is pairing up with someone younger who can carry the song past what you can do yourself. And if you pass on, hopefully the song continues on without you. The songs that have gone on forever are the ones recorded by multiple artists and kept in the culture for years and decades.
The primary problem we have now is the 8 second attention span the populace has and the millions upon millions of things that are in lives every minute of every day. We are barraged by information on a second by second basis, so the ability to write something that "GOES ON long after us" is not quite as prevalent today. Sometimes you are hoping people remember what you do by the end of the song.
So try to focus on things that you believe in your heart, but make them accessible for other people who feel the same things. Be clear in what you write and try to leave something positive behind. People remember positive longer than negativity because their lives are filled with negativity. They probably see it but don't recognize it at the time. And the more positive things stand out more because most writers write negative, bitter and angry songs. So if you want to stand out and leave something behind people will embrace, try to leave them something to embrace with joy and happiness. Touch lives and leave the place a little better than it was before you were here.
Marc-Alan Barnette
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