Music is LoVE

I woke up this morning after a hell of a long week of working at the crack of dawn and playing my fingers to the bone at night, something I and many fellow musicians have been doing for most of our lives (the better part of our live to say the least), and I saw my girlfriend going to work before I was fully up and I remember coming home last night and seeing her asleep as I walked in the door and I said to my self  “why do we musicians do this to our selves and our loved ones?

Why do we sacrifice so much from our lives, leave our homes our family and the people we care about when we could have been spending time with the only people who will love us no matter what?” But I knew the answer to my own question it’s different for everybody but I know now why I leave my home and family that I love dearly.

As human beings we don’t have much of a choice in what hand we are dealt, we are musicians through and through from head to toe from our unconscious minds to our hearts. We live breathe sleep eat and drink music it makes us who we are who we want to be and who we never thought we could be. There’s high’s and there’s lows just like everything else in life and we can’t choose the highs without getting some lows thrown in there too.

But that’s just the way it is, with out the highs of writing, expressing our feelings and performing, we are left with the lows of having to keep our creativeness and expression bottled up inside, but in order to get those highs come the lows of leaving our homes and families for many hours days or weeks at a time. Its not about needing to play music for the sake of playing on a stage with people in front of you cheering or girls hanging out in the back stage area waiting for the singer or guitar player (we all know that can be a part of it but that’s not what its about) its about releasing our creativity out into the wild where it can be it’s own animal and grow and be something that can be part of our world leaving beauty and inspiration for those who wish to listen.

Music is love and some of us have a lot of love to give even when it hurts.