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Tip: When you have a song idea write down absolutely everything related to it

When you have a song idea, write down absolutely everything related to it. In fact go further – actually research the topic as if you are writing a dissertation; worry no more about a shortage of ideas for verses and choruses.

A young songwriter named Woody Guthrie taught him that he could still collect facts like a journalist, but by putting then into a song rather than a newspaper, he could give them more power.” -Paul Zollo writing about Pete Seeger

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