Originally Posted by E5I5O

Writing songs for others is a clear indication that you have no confidence in what you've written. So much so that you'd rather someone else play it, so if it doesn't go over well then they can take the blame. Not a good thing to do. But let's say your music was any good, then why would you want others to take the credit for what you've created?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.