Does music ring in your ears more often than not? Would you say that certain songs elict a strong memory of good or bad times? Can you feel the heat of tears well up when you hear that melody? Maybe you are disposed to puppy kicking music?
Music dominates my life. No, I am not a musician and I guess I am thankful for that. Work seems to wreck in the worst sense/skew in the best sense one's passion. If you are working in an area of passion, is your joy tempered by duties and a requirement to write, sing, construct, paint, cipher? Construction has become like that for me. I feel that creative urge to build something often but not with the same burn as I used to; the realities of what materials and what tools and how much money and how long flood my mind and kind of muddle the initial flash of excitement. I still choose this profession and I do love it. And, it helps me not afford a great lifestyle.
If I were a musician, I would likely not be anything more than a great executer of song. I would likely have nightmares about an iniability to create greatness. Great song writers and musicians for me are like amazing atheltes for some. They have an aura about them that seems as if in a moment's notice they could fashion an incredible movement, flow in a way that I never new existed or was possible. I know where my skills lie, lay?, and free-flowing creativity is not one of them. I am a man of structure: a equals b and b equals c so...I guess that's one of the wonder's of music. My favorite artists and songs are one's that play with the structure and normalcy of music. They are off key like Alice in Chains. They have syncopated beats like old Police. They vocalize in an odd fashion and harmonize beautifully like Phoenix, and The Dixie Chicks, and The Tragically Hip.
Music can take me to amazing highs and lows all without leaving the seat I am in. It can flip my mood in a heartbeat. It seems to have magical powers over me. And that is the way I like it.
And if I could ever make someone experience that through my gifts that would be a great day indeed.
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