To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Because I express myself through the music, I want to be responsible in that expression and how it carries on well after I'm here. But that's just me.
The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.
I use my voice as an instrument.
To write something you have to feel it and know it, and that's not comfortable.
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required.
The acquisition of an accurate and easy conversation, of some skill in music, and in pure and healthful diversions, are of great benefit in fitting one for social intercourse, in which one of the greatest sources of pleasure is found.
If you listen to the way I speak, I have a lot of rhythm, use a lot of accents. When I'm playing my instrument, that concept comes through very clearly.
When I speak it is in order to be heard.