So the other day I was thinking about time and space and things such as that. I was just in one of those moods where I try to solve the complexity of the universe. So I guess it's safe to say that I didn't make it very far. So my mind shifted to perhaps an easier subject and I asked myself why is it I write. Not why do I write papers or blogs (like the one you, yourself, are now reading) because that's easy to answer. Usually because my professor told me to or I'm just bored. But the question arose of why I write songs. (A slightly harder question, but when you have just finished pondering the vastness of the universe you feel able to tackle any challenge)
I don't write songs because I'm bored or because I'm ordered to, because then the music would have no feeling behind it. It would be a terrible blend of mundane chords and emotionless lyrics.
It's more than that. It has to be!
I was watching a symphony a while back and was completly mezmerized by the guy who was conducting. (Not so much by his silver, white hair that had been slicked back like that of a used car salesman) It was almost as if he were in another world. Him and his baton, suppended in some sort of time warp. I was in awe at the waving of his arms, and at the power that his baton had to stop and start music.
It reminded of the last show I had played when during a series of songs I just closed my eyes and let the music flow from my finger tip and drip from my mouth. I was like magic (probably not the thoughts of the audience), or at lest that's what I thought. Music is all about pure emotion that we try to bottle up in everyday words.
It's the seeming endless need to put down with pen and paper what is inside of you. Or just taking the seemingly mundane and suddenly transforming it into a melody that becomes pleasing to the ears of everyone listening.
Perhaps this is why I write. To change the normalness of my day into something extravagant and lovely, hoping that someone passing by will hear and remember it for the rest of the day. I also write as an act of praise to God. Because I know that He is the one who has blessed me with these talents, and it is Him I intend to serve.
It's always fun to take something simple and normal such as a tree or a bird or a flower or a dump truck or even my day to day life and make it exciting through music.
