Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener.

Jimmy Buffett
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Songwriters write songs, but they really belong to the listener. This is an often misunderstood quote, but I always thought it was something that needed to be said. The words of a song are not the same as the song itself. The songwriter writes a song, hoping that it will be liked by most people who listen to it.

But, once the song is written, it belongs to the listener. It doesn’t matter what you think of the song—you can love it or hate it—but ultimately, you can’t take away what the writer has given to us all.

Source: A Pirate Looks At Fifty

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