Why do you make music?

[egelmett]

The reasons have changed over the years...

When I was a kid in school, it was new, it was something I had a sensitivity towards...and that's what I call it: sensitivity to music. There's an instinct towards sound and sounds, there's an emotional connection. I still remember the first day I heard music and recognized my emotional connection to it. I was five years old.

A few years later when instruments were an option in school, I started with woodwinds and it clicked. I started with mimicking, and that progressed into creation. I wanted to create my own. Ever since that day at five years old, the purpose of music was to create it, and perform it. It never crossed my mind at that time there were performers, like Mylie Cyrus, who were performers and entertainers - to me, they were creators, so that's what I wanted to be.

When I was a teen, writing music help me escape family troubles. I was fortunate that my parents helped me purchase synths and a C64 (I paid them back) and the investment in learning to troubleshoot electronic music equipment lent itself to my current career in communications. I could troubleshoot intangible scenarios!

Now, as a mid-40 adult, it's about experiencing sound. I find that for all the music I like and enjoy, I want to write my own music which gives me the same feeling of pleasure...which is very difficult to do. It's a lot like tickling yourself...which is pretty much impossible! But, for all the crap I write that I don't like, or doesn't carry me off, there's those few gems which make it all worth it. It truly is a pleasure to write a song that I like!

If that sounds odd, as in, "how do you write stuff you don't like?", it is. That's the best way I can explain the experience...write a lot, and you'll write that one (or more) gem which is an amazing experience.

[DocAtlas]

For me, and many others here, the question might as well be, "why do you breathe?"

It's always been hardwired in me. I can never remember a time in my life when music wasn't a huge part of it. I always took that for granted, and now it's funny to see my kids who, despite my best efforts at influencing them (I have a house full of guitars, keyboards, a baby grand and a dedicated recording studio), do not share that passion. They have many other of their own passions, and they genuinely love music, but they are not driven by a passion to make music.

Looking back, I also recognize the theraputic value of it. Nearly every day of my entire life, from about the age of 8 on, has included a time dedicated to making music. On those rare occasions where I am somewhere where picking up an instrument is not practical, I feel the void. And, despite the thousands that I have spent over the years on gear and GAS, I would argue that it's STILL cheaper than therapy, and twice as effective.

Cheers
-B

You expressed my feelings exactly. One of my friends is married to a woman who doesn't understand why he bothers, since he isn't making any money, and isn't very likely to become famous. She just doesn't get it.

[RichieWitch]

Because no one else will do it for me.

To elaborate, I have an electrical engineering background. I have always loved music as an artform, dabbled in a variety of instruments, sang in choirs for years, but--I find myself more drawn to the process of recording, processing, mix down. But I need sounds!!

And so, without a real musician to provide the raw materials to feed my growing studio, I have to make my own noise. After two years of trying, some of this stuff is starting to sound pretty good....

[Katelyn]

I suck at everything else

It keeps me sane IRL i think.

I don't have the choice to not to make music
peace

Same here ... it just keeps happening ( I really enjoy it too).

I just wanna say, my reason are what these dudes said but all combined.

Fame and/or fortune.

*cough* I'll leave this article I came across a week ago right here... http://www.metalinjection.net/its-just- ... king-idiot

I'm all for artists getting their fair share of the money made off of their work and I think it's awesome when someone who is authentic and cares about their work can live off of it, but it shouldn't ever be the primary driving reason someone makes music, in my opinion. That just creates this same, dumb-downed, formulaic pop crap polluting our airwaves and internet connections these days.

[Aleatoriac]

Autistic, addicted to it, tried to stop, can't stop.

[IncarnateX]

..to have an excuse for trolling at KVR.










Honestly: I don't know....but It makes me feel good.

[tapper mike]

Originally. meet girls be part of a team (band) Share my feelings with the world.


Now, for the hope of entertaining others.

[edgenet]

At first, it was because it helped me escape my personal worries and fears. But now I found myself surprised to want to do music again, just for the pleasure of creation ^^

[Ranjarresh]

For the extreme joy of experimenting and transforming sounds and for enabling manifestation of some platonic audio forms in audible form.

[Lotuzia]

Because it's the best thing in the world....












































































After sex.... ? ¿

Probably this

[The Traveler]

Because I can't paint, draw or write novels ...

[Kriminal]

Mainly for the cash.

[hivkorn]

Because of silence , loneliness , pain , addiction and isolation.
I can t play Mozart but i am able to play myself.

[Apostate]

At first it was just guitar, I wanted to be Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, Uli Jon Roth. Then I heard Wagner's operas, and Beethoven's late era Kammermusik...Bartók's string quartets.

It then became about self-expression. Or my definition of such, whatever rests easier with the person reading this.

That's it.

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

so others don't have to
























seriously !! just stop it already