There are songs which we think we could have written and there are songs which we wish we had written. There are songs which recall for us a time, a place, a person perhaps. Then there are songs which we can't remember hearing for the first time. All are different kinds of songs which, rare enough, can become classics for us. Then there are the songwriters who write them. We may ask ourselves how they are written. Or do they find them, discover them, or remember them for us? Suzanne is one of those rare people touched by the gift for writing or discovering or remembering, however you want to think of it. This is her first published collection, and I think you'll find here some of those songs which will be "classics" for you. I have.
Philip Glass. Foreword to Bullet in Flight: Songs, Omnibus Press, London, 1990.
Submitted by Hugo Westerlund
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