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Explore the Song vir Nonna blog for the latest news, stories, and experiences from our community. Whether it’s highlighting our young songwriters or sharing songwriting and production tips, we’re excited to bring you along on this empowering journey!

The transformative power of Songwriting

Check out “All about Songwriting”. We cannot deliver this thought in better words. This is reason for our existence. https://allaboutsongwriting.com/the-transformative-power-of-songwriting-how-it-can-improve-your-life. Songwriting is a powerful form of creative...

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No Rules only Tools – Part 1

When writing a song no one can really tell you what to do or not to do. It limits your ability to truly be creative. That being said, there is certainly some helpful tools and guidelines to keep your songs in line with what the listener typically expects to hear. We...

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"The more it seems like a journal entry the better. The more it seems like an open letter the better."

Taylor Swift

"Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to."

Brittany Howard

"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."

Yip Harburg

"A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime."

Bryan Adams

"All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper."

Beth Nielsen Chapman

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”

Sabaa Tahir

“Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others; they only change yours.”

Shannon L. Alder

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

Paulo Coelho

“The unexpressed emotions will never heal.”

Sigmund Freud

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Maya Angelou

"The more it seems like a journal entry the better. The more it seems like an open letter the better."

Taylor Swift

"Songwriting is like talking to yourself when there is no one to talk to."

Brittany Howard

"Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought."

Yip Harburg

"A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime."

Bryan Adams

"All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper."

Beth Nielsen Chapman

“Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don’t lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.”

Sabaa Tahir

“Anger, resentment, and jealousy don’t change the heart of others; they only change yours.”

Shannon L. Alder

“Tears are words that need to be written.”

Paulo Coelho

“The unexpressed emotions will never heal.”

Sigmund Freud

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

Maya Angelou

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