Songwriting Techniques
“There’s this great quote by Stravinsky: If you can copy, you can do,” Travis Morrison tells me. He’s full of poignant quotes like this...
“I’m a music lover first, musician second, and songwriter third”, Keller Williams admits. He pauses for a moment continues, “Yeah, that statement says it...
Poet Rainer Marie Rilke gives a young poet the following piece of writing advice: “There is only one way: Go within. Then draw near...
Caroline Polachek imagines each of her songs as if it was an excerpt from a film. Behind the music there is a fictional world...
The Sound of Songwriting: With James Vincent McMorrow (SXSW Edition)
James Vincent McMorrow’s debut album “Early in the Morning” was entirely self-recorded during a period...
We tend to speak of our lives in generalities, while in our mind, when we sit alone and reflect on the past, we tend...
Much like a lyrical Woody Allen, Tim Kasher doesn’t hide behind his neurosis, he celebrates it. Mature enough to recognize his own self-limitations as...
“Songwriting? That’s something that I don’t really know how to do.” Courtney Taylor felt that I ought to know this before we even began...
