Interpretación frente a composición (The Stones Addedum)

~ Jueves, 02 de noviembre de 2006 ~

Tengo a medio escribir un texto sobre el concierto mágico que dio ayer Omara Portuondo, pero no estoy con ánimo de escribir mucho y, en cambio, sí quiero dejar constancia de que Mick y Keith se han metido por medio de las reflexiones sobre interpretación frente a composición que nos traemos estos días.

En mi absurdo vicio de leer sobre música que no escucho, estoy leyendo «According to The Rolling Stones». En el capítulo que me acompaña en el autobús estos días se encuentran esta declaraciones:

Keith: One thing I can never thank Andrew Oldham enough for —it was more important to the Stones than anything, and probably his main achievement— was that he turned Mick and me into songwriters. It would never have occrurred to me to try unless he had forced it on us, brutally speaking. [...]

Mick: [...] If you say to me, "I've got this girl, she sings like this, and can you write me a ballad about some starlight at 100 beats a minute", then I know exactly what I'm going to do. So Keith and I got into the groove of writing those kind of tunes; they were done in ten minutes. [...]

Keith: [...] because at the beginning songwriting was something we were going to do in order to say to Andrew, "Well, at least we gave it a try, you can't do everything". But in a short space of time, writing became at least equally as important as playing. I thank Andrew for that, because the minute you start to write about things, it turns you into another person. You start, without realising it, to observe things in a different way, and you begin to look at life as little vignettes for ideas. You end up with a much more sharpened set of receptors.

Pero también mantego la teoría de que todo lector medio educado es un autor y ve la vida con ojos de escritor.

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