{"id":22280,"date":"2022-11-29T19:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=22280"},"modified":"2022-11-29T11:33:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T16:33:43","slug":"toby-keiths-advice-to-songwriters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2022\/11\/toby-keiths-advice-to-songwriters\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby Keith’s Advice To Songwriters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toby Keith received the “Icon Award” at the BMI Country Awards in Nashville recently.<\/p>\n

During the show, he talked about the advice he’d give rookie songwriters trying to break in.<\/p>\n

You should write one song every day, and do your best to finish them. It felt like he “wrote 200 songs” before he wrote a good one. Then it took 150 more to write his second good one. You have to practice to really get good at something.<\/p>\n

Now that he’s got three decades and over 30 number-one hits under his belt he says it does come easier.<\/p>\n

For example, he knew his song “Don’t Let the Old Man In” could be a hit as soon as he had the title. But even then, he knew it wouldn’t be a good song unless he could “nail it.”<\/p>\n

That title came from Clint Eastwood<\/a>, who’s 92 now. They were at a golf tournament in 2018, and Toby asked how he stays so motivated. Clint said,<\/p>\n

“I get up every morning and go out. And I don’t let the old man in.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n