I've found out that it's always easier to do melancholic pieces than it is to do upbeat songs. Do you find it so? Why do you think that is?I write poetry constantly but it's harder to write poetry when I am content about things. Mostly I tend to write about things that bother me in the world (personal or non-personal) and we all know there are plenty of issues you can attack. But not all of us want to face them and music means escape for many people.
For me it is about presenting the now - even if it's not a pretty picture. It is about bringing forward what I am feeling, what I am thinking right that very moment. That is why I call my songs the map of my life. I have gone through so much in life and because of this I am a person with sometimes very sharp opinions. I love to put myself in other's shoes and look at things from different perspectives. For me music is about sharing my point of view with others. They may like or hate it, it doesn't really matter.
Opinions of others used to mean very much in early stages when I was still trying to learn everything. I started from scratch. Faced with rude criticism (not constructive) I was very hurt by it. After all I was doing this from my heart alone. By no means I am claiming to be a pro now, just saying that I really didn't know anything in the beginning of my journey.
Music has always played a big part in my life, but I never knew I had songs in me. Not until when the first one came out and it really did that out of the blue. It's been a constant growing process and like everyone trying to learn something they have not done before, I too made lots of errors, tries, experiments to find who I am and what I want to say and how I want to sound like. I think I have found my sound and my own voice but it keeps evolving - as it should evolve. I embrace the changes.
What I want to represent through my music always is authenticity. I want to be true to who I am as a thinker and as a songwriter even if it means that I'm not gonna be popular. The talk about popularity seems rather funny because I feel like such an amateur at times. I write songs in my own home; play my guitar (very clumsily) or my keyboard (a bit better) or just sit in front of my t-bone microphone and play with my FL Studio Pro. And somehow songs come about. I am always surprised when I create something. I do think I have a natural gift for this even if I found it later in life. I base this statement on the thought that if I didn't, all these songs simply would not come to me one after another.
What I want to say with all of this? That I am both the student and the teacher. That I am not finished. All people out there who do music and have this gift or are just discovering it, embrace the possibility but remember to do it for YOU first, for popularity, fame, money second. Do it for YOU. Later on, if you become popular - and then much later, perhaps unpopular, you will land and stand on your own two feet.
Making music is a journey. All journeys end but don't worry about it. There's always a new beginning. For me, finding music was a new beginning. No one can take it away.
For me it is about presenting the now - even if it's not a pretty picture. It is about bringing forward what I am feeling, what I am thinking right that very moment. That is why I call my songs the map of my life. I have gone through so much in life and because of this I am a person with sometimes very sharp opinions. I love to put myself in other's shoes and look at things from different perspectives. For me music is about sharing my point of view with others. They may like or hate it, it doesn't really matter.
Opinions of others used to mean very much in early stages when I was still trying to learn everything. I started from scratch. Faced with rude criticism (not constructive) I was very hurt by it. After all I was doing this from my heart alone. By no means I am claiming to be a pro now, just saying that I really didn't know anything in the beginning of my journey.
Music has always played a big part in my life, but I never knew I had songs in me. Not until when the first one came out and it really did that out of the blue. It's been a constant growing process and like everyone trying to learn something they have not done before, I too made lots of errors, tries, experiments to find who I am and what I want to say and how I want to sound like. I think I have found my sound and my own voice but it keeps evolving - as it should evolve. I embrace the changes.
What I want to represent through my music always is authenticity. I want to be true to who I am as a thinker and as a songwriter even if it means that I'm not gonna be popular. The talk about popularity seems rather funny because I feel like such an amateur at times. I write songs in my own home; play my guitar (very clumsily) or my keyboard (a bit better) or just sit in front of my t-bone microphone and play with my FL Studio Pro. And somehow songs come about. I am always surprised when I create something. I do think I have a natural gift for this even if I found it later in life. I base this statement on the thought that if I didn't, all these songs simply would not come to me one after another.
What I want to say with all of this? That I am both the student and the teacher. That I am not finished. All people out there who do music and have this gift or are just discovering it, embrace the possibility but remember to do it for YOU first, for popularity, fame, money second. Do it for YOU. Later on, if you become popular - and then much later, perhaps unpopular, you will land and stand on your own two feet.
Making music is a journey. All journeys end but don't worry about it. There's always a new beginning. For me, finding music was a new beginning. No one can take it away.
