BSI CONTEST: DUMBEST REASONS GIVEN NOT TO USE ONE OF YOUR SONGS

[Alexander Stuart]

Everyone is invited to enter - you don't even have to be a songwriter.  Just make something up!  That's what songwriters do.  No entry fees!  First prize will NOT be delivered to your front door in an eighteen wheeler.  Enter as many comments as you want.  Comments that were made to you as a publisher's reason not to sign your song.  BSI, in my immediate area, is pleased to enter the following:
1.  "Too many people can relate to that."
2.  "That doesn't start my tractor."
3.  "That doesn't float my boat."
The above comments were made at NSAI Publishers Nights.  NOT made up!

[David L Graham]

We have too many songs like this already..

[David L Graham]

It's a great song...I love it..but who could I get to record it?

[David L Graham]

Your co-writer is too old. Write this with a younger person...and I'll get them a record deal.

[Alexander Stuart]

Did you do it? Reminds me of a couple of publishers who told me, "If you lived in Nashville we could match you up with other writers." Guess they hadn't heard about Alex Bell's invention!

David L Graham said:

Your co-writer is too old. Write this with a younger person...and I'll get them a record deal.

[Alexander Stuart]

Why did they sign too many songs that were alike?

David L Graham said:

We have too many songs like this already..

[Alexander Stuart]

How about Elvis?

David L Graham said:

It's a great song...I love it..but who could I get to record it?

[Cameron Earnshaw]

David L Graham said:

We have too many songs like this already..

Or the opposite.... it's a cool song but nobody is doing anything like this right now.

[Alexander Stuart]

It would be refreshing if they would just tell us the truth. But then, a lot of us would stop writing and they need our demo dollars on Music Row!