Stevie Nicks new rolling stone interview

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Originally Posted by BombaySapphire3

The magical girl that wrote Dreams and Landslide in minutes and that Christine once called " the mad songwriter" is creatively spent and has been for quite awhile if she is now admitting that she can't sit at a piano and write a song without concentrating on it for some time.

As someone who has written and recorded songs, I find this expectation that any songwriter experienced or not should be able to sit at a piano and bang out a song in five minutes quite unrealistic.

Writing lyrics in five minutes is possible, sure, but it doesn't happen all the time and you don't always have the melody and the lyrics at the same time, then you still have to work out the chords.

I think Stevie's idea of concentrating on it for some time is a good one if she aims to get decent results.

By the way, yes she wrote Dreams in minutes, but before Lindsey's arrangement it was just a boring repetition of the block chords F and G throughout the whole song.