There is a real trick to it. Once you learn how chords, notes, rhythms and rhymes work - and these are the tools you need - then you lay in wait for the muse. You lure it in and trap it, and once it's there you try not to wreck it. You try to preserve the beauty of what you've been given and turn it into a song.
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They battled, and they didn't quit. We chipped away ,and we were in a position to win the game late. We lost, but we had a shot at it, and that's a positive.Bill Henderson
Writing short, catchy pop songs was the hardest thing for me to do. The reason boils down to how things are perceived. The most mystifying thing is why a certain combination of words and melody will blow people's minds, while others - which is 99.9 percent of all songs - fall flat. That for me was the search to discover how to create songs that had that quality.
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We had some physical errors, and those will happen. But our kids stepped up, and they settled down late in the game.
Bill Henderson
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Bill Henderson
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