![]() ![]() underscores the knowledge that all songwriters are in the same boat, and that even the most enduring and magical of their songs began where all songs begin - with a single spark of inspiration that is balanced with the mastery of craft that comes from years of work.Īmong the most spectacular conversations in the volume, conducted in 1988, is that with beloved folk musician and activist Pete Seeger (May 3, 1919–January 27, 2014), one of the most prolific songwriters of the past century. ![]() ![]() Indeed, Zollo’s most striking realization from the series was that despite writing songs that are “infinite and eternal - everywhere at once, untouched by time,” these songwriters themselves are deeply human, “as finite and earthbound as the rest of us.” Zollo, a songwriter himself, reflects: In 1987, shortly after being appointed editor of SongTalk, the journal of the National Academy of Songwriters, Paul Zollo began interviewing some of the greatest songwriters alive - Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Madonna, Frank Zappa, David Byrne, and dozens more - “always with the assurance that my focus is strictly on songwriting and the creative process, as opposed to the celebrity-oriented queries often directed to them by the press.” These remarkably candid and wide-ranging conversations, collected in the impressive tome Songwriters On Songwriting ( public library), transcend the realm of songwriting to unmask the essential elements of ideation in just about every creative discipline, from writing to illustration to design. ![]()
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