The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #94502 Message #1831847
Posted By: Alaska Mike
11-Sep-06 - 10:44 AM
Thread Name: Are Musicians Loners?
Subject: RE: Are Musicians Loners?
Interesting thread. I write my own songs and perform solo. My wife and 5 children have never allowed much contemplative "quiet" time to write or practice at home. But I still manage to put lyrics and melodies together as well as learn a new chord or two. My day job sends me out of town quite regularly to places where weather and isolation sometimes provides the solace necessary in song writing. This is perhaps the reason I've written so many songs about being away from home. I also find myself composing new songs while driving along the empty miles of Alaska's road system. I don't consider myself a loner, like all of us, there are times when we are alone and it is these times which I try to utilize.
Mike