Taken from this nice interview of Bill, I found some nuggets worth their weight in gold.
“There would be motions and movement, and there would be notes, and things would be established, but I think without that personal background, there is no real foundation to your musical voice, or what you express through sound and music. It’s all connected whether people want to admit that or not”
To put things into perspective – let’s assume everyday, about 500,000 people pick up the guitar. About 100,000 of them go out and start bands. About 50,000 of them start writing their own music. Assuming, they all write atleast one song each – that’s 50,000 songs coming from a daily seed of new guitar players.
That’s a LOT of songs.
Yet, among those 50,000 songs – how many really mean something to you? How many songs made you feel, wow – there’s something about that song that just tells you so much, and invoked vivid imagery?
Music is a complex sensory experience, and for an artist to be able to ‘paint’ that experience to an audience, a philosophical grounding is what’s needed.
Behind every note is intent, something more important than the note itself, which is why a true virtuoso will show you how to make one note scream out in agonizing anger, or sing a most beautiful lullaby.
I wrote about a similar idea earlier, in Stuck writing a song?
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