
The Tarot of Songwriting 08 - Strength

There’s a time for certain ideas to arrive, and they find a way to express themselves through us.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller

The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorthemergencemagazine.org


I can imagine the idea that songwriters feel they are sometimes in receipt of mystical gifts rubs some people up the wrong way for being too aggrandising and too self-important - I get it, because, in many ways, I think of songwriting as low art. That’s not to say it’s not meaningful and complex, but it’s not ancient monument stuff. I obviously can... See more