The Motivational Song

WATCH THOSE COPYRIGHTS

If you want to use anyone else's ideas in your song, for goodness' sake, make sure you get their permission, first. The last thing you need is for a world-famous motivational speaker to sue you for royalties. The same goes for using a quote from a well-known book or celebrity, even if the author is dead-their descendants may well own the rights to those statements. A quick web check and an email or letter or two may solve any possible problems, and many will probably gladly let you use their words for a small licensing fee or just for the publicity-just get that in writing, first. You might even run your lyrics through a search engine that handles famous quotes, just to be sure your wonderful, catchy words weren't a famous quote you heard years ago and forgot where you heard it, and thought accidentally it was your own. Better safe than sorry, here.

Writing motivational songs, though, is always fun. I try to include several of these in the albums I have written, and am currently working on some for my new one. All musicians have to go up against ridiculous odds to make it, and we need all the rallying cries we can get-why not try to get others fired up while you are at it?

But as always, just keep writing and have fun!

©2002 Cindy Lee Haddock

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