Well as many of you don’t know, composing music is kind of like breathing. You do it without really being aware, always, and you sometimes mess it up and lose you breath.
Dumb metaphor.
Let’s try composing music is like meditating. Yeah. Better. Sometimes you can die happy, sometimes you can’t.
So sometimes when I listen to my songs, music not usually words, sometimes the music hits me in a way that reminds me of life, the perpetual motion of life, the stillness of life, in essence the law of inertia.
And sometimes my music reminds me of a locomotive, very difficult to move, very difficult to stop.
When I listen to music, I look for the riff that is to die for, like a lot a Jimmy Page’s early work, Lennon has some, DiMeola and others.
When I hear those, I understand that an achievement such as that, leaves one little need to ever achieve anything else.
A die happy performance.
And then, inevitably, the opinion changes, about oneself, and the quest continues.