Today, our ears matter more to us than our eyes. Today, we hold closer our imaginative wanderings and ideas than our priorities and our obligations.
We connect over things that in an outsider’s eyes would seem insignificant and minuscule. Things that we and we alone understand and even then we do in our own specific ways.
So what is it about music that intrigues us so? What is it that compels us to devote so much time to this wonderful experience of stigmatic, emotional expression? And just what is it that inspires us to carry on such a defining legacy as being a musician.
For most of us, it’s the meaning behind the lyrics. We search valiantly for things that we can relate to so that we feel like we are a part of something bigger than ourselves. An idea we want to support. A moral value or belief maybe.
Something that ties our souls to a concept that we agree upon or possibly even convinces us that we could have been wrong, for there is another perspective to see things through.
Sometimes we listen for new experiences that our ears particularly enjoy. A certain guitar lick, a perfect bash on the snare drum, or even that moment of silence where you think that the song is over… but then it hastily sets back in motion and creates an aura that not even I can describe.
We all have those specific little kinks that we enjoy, and the songs that induce them will forever be engraved in our hearts.
We make sure to wring the juicy flavors of sound out of them until we’ve tasted every last note, and then keep squeezing.
Sometimes we wander into the vast plains of our imaginations and find things that we never even knew we could come up with.
Letting our creative sides take control can send us traveling into uncharted dimensions where we can freely speak what we want and not have to worry about those who oppose it. Let loose.
Let your opus fly free in the outside world once in a while and who knows? You may find yourself as the one stirring the hearts of others, pleasing ears in ways unheard of.