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moam	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 1:57 PM Has your past affected how your music is now and how you act and all? Is your music happy because you have lived a happy life and you can think of nothing to be sad about? Is your music angry because you have lived a shitty life and can't think of anything happy to sing about? Do you just like dark/angry music or just happy music? Also, has anything huge happened to you in the past that made you stronger or just made you the person you are today? Basically, just relate your past to everything now... I'm curious as to where we all get our influences or how we came to be the musicians we are today...
Jennae	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:00 PM life has HEAVILY affected my music and the lyrical content. I tend to use music to express my current life situations. I think both play off each other. I make music and music makes me
victorsskull	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:03 PM us to be because of the roughness of life but now I just like the dark side
ICF	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:09 PM Well pretty much that is what i write for! One person in the past was all it took to actually make me sit up and notice that i had a little talent sparking and inspired me to let it out. Some of the first i wrote were about and dedicated to this person even though our time went. They showed me this site and since then i have been recording, all about mainly people in my life. Virtually all the lyrics i have written have been about someone or something in my life at some point it time. And yeah i think my music has affected me as a person in a way - for better and worse! But one thing it has done is made me a bit more confident and is also helping me through school!! So in conclision, my past IS my music, my beggings of my past are written about in the present.. and though alot of it is sad, thats because its what i find easir to write about and when i feel inspired! Anyway im done now..
moam	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:10 PM hell yeah, dark side is better Same here to Victorsskull, once I started getting better at making tunes, I just started liking dark music more than happy music Not that I'm not happy now, I used to hate life, but then I graduated from highschool (#1 self esteem killer) and now I am happy as a
moam	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:15 PM Yeah I think that's a lot of us really...what Interconnect... something said A lot of us have had shit lives but it was mainly in highschool and I hate highschool more than on the walls... But I think that making music heals anyone who feels like complete and utter It's like we made art out of disaster in our lives, so whatever bad happened in our lives isn't for nothing... It didn't just destroy us and have all negative effects on us. It made us the musicians we are today I applaud all of you for that
ICF	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:20 PM your right about the main self-esteem killer being high school!!
Jennae	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:21 PM HS was 15 years ago
gothian	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 2:25 PM METAL !!! I don't care about the lyrics of our band, the singer do that, I only care about the music
moam	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 3:01 PM METAL!!! (damn I love that ) But yeah, I hate when people are always like "is there something wrong or some bull when they see some dark song. I just like dark music
rumtumm69	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 3:06 PM I think life immitates music and vice versa, but, you can always tell when you do a cover for instance and it's not your own the diffrence of how you sing or play it. There is no emotion attached to it and people who know music or experience it in a diffrent way can deffinitly tell when there is no attachment to a song or music. I guess that is my oppinion
moam	Date: October 8, 2004 @ 3:11 PM Yeah, and more emotion is ALWAYS better. When you can feel a person's pain through song, you KNOW they did a good job
AnatomizingA...	Date: October 10, 2004 @ 5:39 PM The music that I write about is a lot about my past and whats happening now. I have a hard time writing faster music.. it always ends up being slow and depressing... shrugs
Izekial	Date: October 10, 2004 @ 9:48 PM I've become more and more emotionally distant with my craft. As I become better, I find myself wanted to try different things, different genres. I used to get that funny feeling inside my tummy when I’d rock out, but not much anymore. Music is still the most important thing to me in my life, but now I take a more controlled, analytical approach to things. My past was full of angst and fear. I’m also an indifferent, aloof person, though, and there wasn’t much that could get me down. There have been only a few occasions where I’d “write from my gut”, so to speak. I’m a drummer first, so rarely do I ever write any of my own songs anyway. Because of inexperience, I usually stumble over myself or I end up sounding trite. If I’m just drummer, things are simpler, and I feel more centered. I know where my place is and I want to do a good job. That’s about it nowadays.
koiulpoi	Date: October 11, 2004 @ 6:06 PM I seriously think I channel music from some freaky dead people... I don't know where half of it comes from, I just write it when it comes to me, and I know I shouldn't be this creative. Other than that, well, not really. I think I just write music.
wailingmiserere	Date: October 14, 2004 @ 9:35 AM I think my past has had a huge effect on my music, particularly where I grew up. Growing up on quite a remote Scottish island with no one but sheep for company tends to leave quite an impression on you Seriously though, when I listen to my music I can hear the influence of Orkney very clearly, in the spaces and pauses and bleakness of it. It's influenced my lyrics a lot, as well. There's a sort of otherworldliness to it which has no sense of time attached to it, which I think comes across in my lyrics. As for specific events, I will not go into details... but suffice to say at least 75% songs on my page are about the same person.
geetarman	Date: October 14, 2004 @ 10:37 AM I think people write a certain way to attract people of a specific mindset. For such a lonely and solitary craft it's connected to the entire world in some odd way. We subconciously seek out others like us and hope for their acceptance.
johnnygnote	Date: October 14, 2004 @ 3:58 PM Yes to all. Driving to Texas from AZ to get to my mothers bedside before she died and sitting with her while she was in a coma until she died did a lot to get me on a different track than I ever knew before. I have always been a singer and a musician since child hood and worked at writing songs about true things in my life. But my momos death did a lot for me, you might say the woman that gave me birth gave me birth a second time through her death.
MCCUBED	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 1:14 AM I WRITE ABOUT SUCH I WIDE SPECTRUM OF WEIRD THINGS. IT COULD BE EFFECTED BY WHAT I WATCH ON T.V. OR THINGS I GO THROUGH. SOMETIMES I JUST WRITE ABOUT ANYTHING THAT IS FUNNY
zique	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 2:27 AM My past totally influences my music and lyrics.That old saying..."music lets me express myself".actually the present and future are just as much of an influence.Most people i think,feel musicians and songwriters use thier music to express things because they are shy or insecure,i think the opposite.i think musicians need music as an extra vehicle for whats on thier minds because they have more to say than others and need something more than just verbal communication.
JFF	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 10:12 AM Definately.
Pagan	Date: October 15, 2004 @ 11:36 PM when I'm miserable, I write like a demon . when I am happy I write crap. Im hoping for some misery real soon. i have rent comin' up.
acousticgrrl	Date: October 22, 2004 @ 3:47 AM Everything I write is 100% movitvated by what's going on in my life. I am brutually honest in my music. To the point where I won't post some songs of mine. And unfortantely, I'd say that about 80% of everything I write is about the same person to. I am bothered by people who just write generic lyrics that have no meaning to them. I put everything into my lyrics. Even if everyone else hates them, most of my songs have deep personal meaning to them. I don't think I've ever written a single happy song. They're too hard to write, they always sound so bad. The more depressed I am, the better my music gets. Music is emotion as far as I'm concerned.