Falling in love with your own songs

[fret17]

I was thinking about this some more and wanted to add that I think there are songs that I've written that I love, not because they were written well, but more because they are attached to a certain time of my life and people I loved back then....Remember the first song you ever wrote?...remember how much fun it was to write?....how you thought it was the greatest thing and you played it so much it inspired you to write another one....and now that one's the better one...and on and on and on....but at some point you start reading how to write, how to structure, how to rhyme and search for new ones...etc until you reach a point that, although you've become a better commercial writer...the old beginning songs were your best in that pure innocent stage of life when dreams were in abundance and you thought you had forever to get to them.....It might be fun to start a thread with everyone posting their very first song, on the instrument they composed it on,....I think that would be a hoot!

I was about 11, sitting at my Aunt's piano in Miami, FL, pencil in hand and blank score sheet in front me. Both my Aunt and that piano are long gone...but somewhere in a secret recess in my basement is a box and somewhere in that box is that original score sheet with my notes scribbled on it. If I ever find it, I'll record and post it.

Outstanding Donald....and I'll follow with mine...hope more will too!...(sorry Casey...didn't mean to highjack your thread!) ....

[Ajetpackoperation]

There's like an imaginary radio station in my head that plays a kind of indescribable music I'm not hearing anyone else make - and believe me, I listen to a ton of stuff. Most of my efforts musically are to do my best to bring this music to life in the real world - stuff that would personally make me 'bout fall out my chair if I heard it on the radio or performed live. My music Is me, but at the same time feels like it's from a place outside of me, so in the end I really can't say for certain how I feel about it.

[jerryjennings]

I always want the idea to go down no fuss no muss. But of course I keep writing and rewriting until I don't think I can improve it. Then a month goes by and I get a taxi critique and it's back to the chopping block again. That is with lyric songs. My instrumentals are different. I usually do love them pretty much from start to finish, if they make it to the finish. But lyrics put me through this whole other process.

[alguitar]

I as well fall in love with my songs, but recently writing a song that is a new genre for me Pop/Rock
Finally getting out of my comfort zone. So maybe I won’t fall so much in love with it and write with emotion and craft man ship and go on , and write another.

[charlie2]

Falling in love with your songs would be the worst thing to do.

Love is blind, and you'll just become blind to how the public will hear your songs.

My pieces are flirting with me everyday....but I tell them no. I want to be an effective composer.

[mojobone]

My latest song no longer speaks to me; she's been whoring around in fifteen different genres.....that bitch!

[Casey H]

Mojo's been looking for love in all the wrong places.

Casey

[Mark Kaufman]

I love all my songs...like a serial killer loves his victims.

[helmutuhlmann]

I think that you can often be both the harshest and the softest critic of your own songs; and for me i know I often don't know which one i am. So overall, i think you gotta distinguish between personal songs and professional songs and get a variety of opinions on them so as to best gage their level?