Previous posts in the series:
Why Do You Create Music (Part 1)
Why Do You Create Music (Part 2)
Why I Create Music
Over the past couple of days I’ve been looking at the topic of why musicians create music. I’ve posted comments that I received as an answer to the simple question “Why do you create music” on a couple forums that I read often, and I’ve let those answers pretty much speak for themselves.
Now I will take the time to address the subject from my own point of view.
When I began creating my own music, I was in a band. I was determined that I was going to be a rockstar someday. Well, that’s how I talked, but really I just wanted to spend my life getting paid for writing and performing music. At the time, that was my sole driving factor. Everything I wrote, everything I created, was to improve my chances of becoming a full-time musician.
As the years passed, those dreams faded, but the drive to be creative did not. I had over the years played around with creating odd sounds and some simple songs that I knew wouldn’t fit with the sound my band had formed, so as I spent less and less time working with a band, I spent more and more time on these random songs and sounds that I was creating.
It didn’t take long for me to figure out that it was a good feeling to know that I had created something new. Most of the time it didn’t matter to me if other people had or would hear what I created… I liked it, and that was all that mattered. It was somewhat of a rush. It was definitely a feeling of creative release. It took my mind away from every day dull happenings and gave me somewhat of a sense of purpose.
Luckily for me I have a couple friends who have very similar feelings about creating music. Like me, they’re not so worried about the whole world hearing what they’ve done. They just want to create something that they can be proud of.
Music has literally flooded into pretty much every aspect of my life at this point. I like to write, so I have this blog to write about music. I like football and I have a Minnesota Vikings Blog, so I figured out ways to be able to create music to promote the blog. I have recently started a Minnesota Twins blog, and I am already planning some music for that one as well. I go to church on Sundays and Wednesdays, and I’m part of the music team. I even married a person who enjoys playing music, and we’ve written songs together. I get together with two of my friends (who I hope to have write on this blog sometime in the very near future) every week, and we create music.
When I’m at my office, I typically have music playing, and often times my playlist is filled with things that I’ve created… not because I’m arrogant, but because I’m proud. It feels good to create something that I enjoy. If no one else ever decides they like my music, I’m still proud of it, because I like it.
I create music because that’s who I am… a songwriter, a musician, and a creative artist.
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