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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Music in Writing

I have some rather eclectic tastes in music and it can vary from anything from folk and regional music to heavy metal to country to A Capella to Celtic to punk. I also have a tendency to find rather obscure bands that many people have never heard of. Music has always been important to me, as it is a valuable tool for expression. There are some song that are so poignant that they help explain things that I could not find the words for before.

As such, I have often felt the urge to put a few quotes of song lyrics or if nothing else song titles into some of what I am writing. This has me wondering as to the legalities of doing so. I am guessing that just listing a song title and artist would be okay, as I am giving credit to the artist. I am not sure if there are legal ramifications for quoting other lyrics if I also give credit to the artist and keep the lyrics limited.

I think it would be neat to write a book where each chapter was given the name of either a song or the lyrics to a song. Of course, with some of the songs that I know, I could come up with some rather interesting chapter title. As an aside, I am slowly getting nearer to my goal of being able to make a cd with songs with about cows. (no, I don't know why I want to make a cd with songs about cows, but I have some really fun cow songs). If anyone has any cow songs that they can suggest, please let me know.
So, How was that for a digression?

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