Comments on: Creativity: Don’t Think – Do. http://voicecouncil.com/creativity-dont-think-do/ Practical insight for today's emerging vocalists Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Brian K. Stevenson http://voicecouncil.com/creativity-dont-think-do/#comment-841 Brian K. Stevenson Mon, 03 May 2010 23:42:18 +0000 http://voicecouncil.com/?p=2439#comment-841 Hello Susan,<br><br>Paco always beats me to the best topics...I can't help but think he's intrinsically more deep than I. Wow, just when ya' think you're makin' a good turn and whack - ya' get a smack across the brow! I've come to realize that I beat the living crap out of myself...somehow I excuse this abuse with a strong and unrelenting work ethic. I meet all of my commitments with severity...save one...my personal health. I live on caffein and nicotine and no more than 5 hours sleep a day = terrible, I know. Time to carve off the fat! Currently I'm capable of the juggling act; but I know it's only a matter of time before I cause too much damage.<br><br>I find that I fight to be emotional...there's something in me that is machine, or insect like that is as fascinated with precision and mechanics as it is the emotions of love, hate, happiness, sorrow...in fact...it's almost as if acheiving that unique conformity is what causes me an emotive response. <br><br>I most often express love through acts of servitude. So, in a way, my work for an individual displays my love for that person...and pretty much any emotion I have will come from that vehicle. I've always felt that I had a lot of heart and a focused mind but no way to connect them. What do you all do to bridge the spiritual gap between thought and emotion?<br><br>In Paco's second paragraph he talks about often having to go through deep pain to bring something to life...in essence, we're the long-term parents of our songs, whether the band is divorced or still married. It seems that writing is an almost soulful occupation regardless of the content. As we expellee our thoughts and feelings we think we will become free of them...but we have to honestly know that place to be able to perform it with conviction. If people resonate with something dark in us we tend to have to relive this emotion each time it is performed. That can be pretty tough over time.<br><br>Namaste,<br><br>Brian Hello Susan,

Paco always beats me to the best topics…I can't help but think he's intrinsically more deep than I. Wow, just when ya' think you're makin' a good turn and whack – ya' get a smack across the brow! I've come to realize that I beat the living crap out of myself…somehow I excuse this abuse with a strong and unrelenting work ethic. I meet all of my commitments with severity…save one…my personal health. I live on caffein and nicotine and no more than 5 hours sleep a day = terrible, I know. Time to carve off the fat! Currently I'm capable of the juggling act; but I know it's only a matter of time before I cause too much damage.

I find that I fight to be emotional…there's something in me that is machine, or insect like that is as fascinated with precision and mechanics as it is the emotions of love, hate, happiness, sorrow…in fact…it's almost as if acheiving that unique conformity is what causes me an emotive response.

I most often express love through acts of servitude. So, in a way, my work for an individual displays my love for that person…and pretty much any emotion I have will come from that vehicle. I've always felt that I had a lot of heart and a focused mind but no way to connect them. What do you all do to bridge the spiritual gap between thought and emotion?

In Paco's second paragraph he talks about often having to go through deep pain to bring something to life…in essence, we're the long-term parents of our songs, whether the band is divorced or still married. It seems that writing is an almost soulful occupation regardless of the content. As we expellee our thoughts and feelings we think we will become free of them…but we have to honestly know that place to be able to perform it with conviction. If people resonate with something dark in us we tend to have to relive this emotion each time it is performed. That can be pretty tough over time.

Namaste,

Brian

]]> By: Paco http://voicecouncil.com/creativity-dont-think-do/#comment-396 Paco Sun, 13 Dec 2009 01:59:14 +0000 http://voicecouncil.com/?p=2439#comment-396 I find this article the most interesting among those published in the last weeks. I do agree with you that action is a must and working hard is the only way to make ideas come out from your inside. When I am writing, I just have my guitar and let my fingers move without thinking what I am doing till something calls my attention. But I would like to share with you a problem I have. I am too critic with myself. Many times when listening to other's songs I found me thinking: "oh, this is rubbish, I would have never developed a complete song from that". So, many ideas that come to me I usually through away. I have to be very impacted emotionaly by a seed idea so as to allow myself to work on it. The problem is that I can produce a very small number of songs yearly.<br><br>But I do not agree with you in one thing. In the process of creating I need to "live" the song. I need to be emotinaly linked to the story and the words. And somtimes this is temporarily devasting. I do feel down, even to the limit of holding my tears, when I am building something sad. Or, on the contrary: can I only create something great when I am previosly having a bad time? I not sure what goes first, but I do believe there is something dual in the process of creating: the joy of sharing your deepest you and the sadness of allowing your creation get life. Isn't there some kind of losing is this process? I find this article the most interesting among those published in the last weeks. I do agree with you that action is a must and working hard is the only way to make ideas come out from your inside. When I am writing, I just have my guitar and let my fingers move without thinking what I am doing till something calls my attention. But I would like to share with you a problem I have. I am too critic with myself. Many times when listening to other's songs I found me thinking: “oh, this is rubbish, I would have never developed a complete song from that”. So, many ideas that come to me I usually through away. I have to be very impacted emotionaly by a seed idea so as to allow myself to work on it. The problem is that I can produce a very small number of songs yearly.

But I do not agree with you in one thing. In the process of creating I need to “live” the song. I need to be emotinaly linked to the story and the words. And somtimes this is temporarily devasting. I do feel down, even to the limit of holding my tears, when I am building something sad. Or, on the contrary: can I only create something great when I am previosly having a bad time? I not sure what goes first, but I do believe there is something dual in the process of creating: the joy of sharing your deepest you and the sadness of allowing your creation get life. Isn't there some kind of losing is this process?

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