Herb and Mario, Joanne the Genius, everyone:

Yes, there is no shame (or instant fix either) in using these tools.

A famous award winning songwriter told me that he and his buddy always had a "hook day" at least once week where they would walk around a record store looking at albums in shelves, pulling out song titles they could tweak (or steal, I guess), looking at liner notes, song lyrics, seeing what they could borrow from or reinvent, and then head back to the house to drink and get loaded and write some songs.

Aside from the drinking and getting loaded part, what's the difference??

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A song prompt is a song prompt, nothing more, nothing less...

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