THERE IS A GREAT DESIRE TO SMOOTHE AND POLISH AND PORTRAY THE MESSAGE.
MUSICIANS LEARN AND UNDERSTAND AND FAITHFULLY REPRODUCE A MESSAGE.
WRITERS AND COMPOSERS CREATE A MESSAGE AND CONDUCT OR PERFORM THE MESSAGE WHICH INSPIRED THEM.
There is a feeling which accompanies musical performance. There is a wind at your back physically and thought is accelerated mentally and you are exhilirated emotionally. When you are leading an extemporization or a musical interlude there is a sense of a dramatic and exciting emotion.
I like to dance, dance while playing harmonica, dance with partners and dance while inventing music and writing lyrics. I will compose a piece and sequence it and dance and set different rythyms and time signatures and I will sing as I write lyrics. I keep the lyric sheets on the keyboard and rewrite lyrics as I practice.
Attending a Musical Trade school or being a sideman produces a different musician. I do not know if they experience the heady feelings felt by those of us who are driven to play by an internal muse. If you make it to the big light show stages there are heady feelings as you perform and crowds roar. Fame must be wildly heady.
The act of authorship as I write a song has a satisfaction like to pronouncing a difficult string of words or balancing a stack of dishes or cooking a great dish. A balance is held and a theme is faithfully followed and a vision builds in my mind.
DELICIOUS IMAGININGS CAN COME IN TO MY MIND LIKE A MOVIE OR ART COME TO LIFE. I WILL PORTRAY THE IMAGININGS AND EXPAND ON THE VISIONS AND THE SOUNDS AND PERFORM THEM. THIS IS THE MOST PROFOUND EXPERIENCE IN SONGWRITING I BELIEVE.
Much of the music I invent is produced by playing a sequence of chords over and over with small changes until a bar of the new musical creation seems to be developed enough to record and play along with to recall it and keep working on it in the past and for a quarter century, fortunately at the first perfect birth of the musical movement I CAN sequence it. I can play along and develop or computer enhance and alter the new music and continue to play along with it or add to it.
Writing an Ablum is even more deeply metaphysical and driven by emotion with intense feeling as I voyage deeper into a new world of musical creation.
IT IS MINDBLOWING I LOVE THE FEELING OF HAVING MY MIND BLOWN LIKE THIS.
THAT IS WHY I DID IT AND WHY I DO IT.
