The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.
The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.
Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.
I like music when it makes you feel.
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.
I think music naturally wants to be played with more than one person. There's a surprise element, and you don't know what it will be, and it's up to that other person's energy to help create this third thing.
What is music for? It's to make you feel good.
For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.