I read this article a while ago, and kept meaning to do a post. I always feel like I never have enough time to do everything I want to do, and I keep wanting to make it a priority to do things that make me happy and make me wonder. Here are two quotes about songwriting (and really, the importance of doing things that reaffirm your humanity, that keep you connected to yourself, and to something outside of you that's well, mysterious):
"It's hard to explain. It's definitely more spiritual — why I would be
doing music in the first place, if I didn't get goose bumps and stuff?
We're so excited, all of us — we're like kids...that just found out that you can mix the packs of
Kool-Aid – mix the powder with the sugar, and just eat it straight. We
used to do it as kids — I have no idea why we used to do that. But that
feeling of childlike – childhood — finding something for the first time."
- The-Dream
"it feels like the sun is rising,
without me having to say that in the lyric.
With music and with
harmony it's just one of those things, man. Yeah, I can't even explain
it. It just makes me feel alive, I guess."
-The-Dream
For the full article: http://www.npr.org/blogs/therecord/2013/06/19/193538349/the-dream-on-why-we-all-need-r-b
To goose bumps (the good kind), to wonder and to doing things that make us feel alive.
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