Rite & Reason: Melody and lyrics come to the musician in mysterious ways. And sometimes the humble pie of criticism can fuel great artistic triumph
Rite & Reason: Melody and lyrics come to the musician in mysterious ways. And sometimes the humble pie of criticism can fuel great artistic triumph
In the book of my collected song lyrics, To The Light, I wrote that, “though I have paid as much diligence to the pure word as to the pure note” in my long calling as a songwriter, I admit that “song lyrics rarely achieve the heights of true poetry”. Carl O'Brien: Churches are half-empty. So why does the Catholic Church still control so many of our primary schools?Breda O'Brien: Attempts to clamp down on the influence of Big Tech may hinge on the fate of one woman
My next encounter with the mysterious force of inspiration came when a song entitled Flame came to me in a long drawn-out compositional process that almost drove me out of my mind during the three-year search it took to find its pivotal final verse – a crucial verse that the song wouldn’t have been complete without – which came to me after an act of humility.
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