To emulate other great musicians.
To process and express emotions.
To heal.
To make people listen.
My answer was, To say things in a way I couldn’t in any other medium. To make connections. To make sense of things.
All true. All important. Yet, taken together they felt incomplete.
Today, while catching up on old blog posts, I ran across this from Hugh MacLeod of GapingVoid.com:
Yeah.
When I write, I make something exist that didn't before. Noticing that a thought or idea could become a song, finding words and melodies and building on them, piece by tiny piece ... nothing else in the world feels like that feels.
Though I hadn't thought of it exactly this way before seeing Hugh's cartoon, bringing a song into being proves I'm alive.
What do you do to prove you're alive?
8 comments:
Hi,
I saw you had posted a comment on Sharons blog but wasn't sure it was directed to me or in general to all.
You ask, Are you alive? I think so after a life time of not feeling like I was. My music is the key. If anyone were to read or hear it than they would know pretty much my deepest feeling like the one I just did called, I Thought You Were My Friend. It's basically about people I thought were friends like teachers, preachers, ex wife and the like who, come to find out weren't and betrayed trust. A very personal song.
I listened to your music here and it is outstanding and your voice is just amazing. Thanks, Jarry
One of the things I do is study (and communicate) mathematics. That sounds deadly dull to those who have no idea of the beauty of the subject, but teasing out the secrets of the universe is a wonderful way of connecting one's intellect to the reasoning part of the universe. Everyone knows that if you start drawing a curve that starts below a line and ends up on top of it that you have to cross the line. But how do you prove it?
Anything that develops the intellect is a life-affirming activity.
This is great, Susan! Glad one blog can inspire another...:)
Sharon
www.songwritingscene.com
@John: even though I only understand maybe a tenth of what you describe in math, it's still undeniably passionate and you've never lost a bit of that passion. That's admirable.
@Susan: that's a interesting perspective. I'm going to think long on this. A friend said to me years ago that according to an expert, Skinner I think, there are two types of people: those who love life and those who love death. I was described as someone who loves life and that pisses him off. He had a point. :)
@Jarry: Thanks for listening and contributing. Is any of your music online?
@Dad: I can understand how someone could get the same feeling out of math, even though I lack the comprehension to get that myself.
@Sharon: Thanks for the original post. :)
@Dep: B. F. Skinner? Was he allowed to describe people in terms of anything but behavior? Anyhow, keep loving life, even if that pisses you off. ;)
@Susan, I have nothing posted on the web. I am not really a performing singer/songwriter. I am having trouble posting to be honest. I am simply a writer who sings for himself. it would be nice to share and perhaps I would share with someone for a critique but for now it is all in me. Sounds selfish huh!!!
Hey, no need to apologize. When I started writing songs, I couldn't even sing. I had to look for people to sing them for me. The difficulty I had doing that became the main reason I learned to sing myself. :)
Hey, Thanks for that... I suppose it will be the reason I do the same. The desire to do the music is just to great to let it fall to the wayside because I am insecure about my singing. I have a desire to feel alive. Music is my way of doing that.
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