10.27.07
Expression, The Key is Simply To Love it.
Sometimes when I try to write a song I wind up abandoning the project before it’s even begun. My logic usually goes something like this: “Well, I’m not in the right mood, so if I write the song now it won’t be quite right and then it’ll be a mediocre product so I’d better do it later when it’s the ‘perfect’ moment and then I’ll write the ‘perfect’ song.”Interesting.
We all know what happens next: the perfect moment never comes and I rarely get around to writing that song. And, even more importantly, I rarely get around to expressing the thought that originally inspired me - and so I wind up quashing my own expression. (Sabotage, anyone?)
And at this point I ask myself: “what’s so bad about mediocre expression?” Without those songs that lack the luster I will never get to those that are at once fresh, honest, and timeless (ie. that ‘perfect song’).
I think perhaps it’s time my priorities were re-stacked with “expression” on top and “perfection” left on the back shelf to gather some dust. I can’t change the fact that nothing I create will be perfect beyond any opportunity to be improved. Expression, however, is inherently valuable simply for the fact that it took place.
The key is simply to love it.
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