What song would you like played at your funeral?

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Something by Leonard Cohen, I haven’t figured out which song yet.

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Kathleen Turner American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.

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Sara Pascoe English comedian, presenter, writer
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 July 2018 source ↗

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There are a few. As far as getting started, lots of people who really want to make a song have figured that out already. I very rarely get asked for advice from people who have never written a song and want to know how to get started. It’s usually about getting stuck or feeling like they’ve painted themselves into a corner. I remember getting asked a question from this one kid who was probably 13 years old. He wanted to know if it was okay to always write in A minor. He liked writing classical piano pieces and his favorite key was A minor. My favorite key is also A minor, so he wanted to know if that was okay.

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