Self expression is not easy. It is a challenge to most people to be able to fluidly spill their emotions onto paper, whether it be in picture form, simple semantics, or in musical notes and vocals. All my life I have appreciated the emotion and passion that goes into music and how it can psycologically affect us all. Music for me is not just a hobby or fun time consuming extended project, but a way for me to put a piece of me, a piece of my soul into the aether. You can view the undercurrent of emotions I experience in my music. With my earliest written lyrics anti-establishment, then evolving into love songs, and back into pessimistic apocalyptic ballads. All corresponding to real events in my life, or viewpoints I took on.
As for instrumentals, I have always loved unorthodox sounds. The accordion, for example, is something I have always adored. It holds a character not many other instruments can. For the longest time is has been confined to polka bands and Weird Al Yankovic. But after digging into my Polish and Czech heritage and finding out how awesome the instrument really is, I began to use it for my music.
There is no bound to what I can express with my music, and without it, I would not be a complete person.
My challenge to other musician bloggers out there, do this same thing, express how you feel about music and what inspires you to create it in the comments back on Digg. I would love to see what my peers are driven by. Cheers!
