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     Austin Member Username: Bruegelpie Post Number: 79 Registered: 09-2004 |
Robert gave a key note recently, which would have been fantastic to hear, I'm sure. There is a few quotes from him here: Inspiration can be found from the most unlikely sources. Songwriters, however, tend to write from their observations, and the great songwriters read at lot. “You can write until you’re 25 about a girl dumping you, or the girl next door. Then it starts to peter out,” Go-Betweens great Robert Forster said during his keynote speech at the APRA Song Summit. “You need fuel, new ideas. Even if it’s through books, films and art.” Forster’s late collaborator Grant McLennan was the yang to his yin. “I was a lot more suburban. He was like, ‘I have a book to read.’ He taught me, ‘you’re an artist. You’re a thinker. That’s your job’.” Full article here: http://www.themusicnetwork.com/music-fea tures/industry/2011/04/28/how-to-write-a -hit/ |