“Most of the really good songs are dead true. ... It had to have happened to have the song be there. Every time I've tried to make stuff up it just kind of falls flat. So the majority of my work is something that happened to me, I saw happen to someone else, or a friend of mine told me happened. There is a certain amount of theatrical and poetic license. People are supposed to like it, that's why you're doing it. It's supposed to be fun. It's not brain surgery, it's heart surgery. They're just songs.” PeopleWritingHeartKindHappensCertainSongFallFunStuffBrainSawsHappenedMinesAmountMajoritySupposed To BeFlatsPoeticSongwritingSurgeryLicenseTheatricalBrain SurgeryHeart SurgeryPoetic License Author:Guy Clark
“Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it. And that's part of the reason I write like I do, so I can leave the holes in the right places so people can say, 'Yeah, that happened to me,' and they're able to have their own little fantasy about it.” PeopleNeedsWritingLittlesI CanReasonHappensAbleSongFantasyHappenedFineYeahHolesSongwritingListenersRight Place Author:Guy Clark
