14 Jul MUSIC IS LIKE A LONG-DISTANCE RUN
First.. you have great determination.. Ideas, joy, the desire to experience something new, to move on to somewhere else. Desire.. It is the driving engine. Everything vanishes without desire. Desire is the number one driver. I will run because it gives me both one and the other… I will play because it gives me both one and the other… I will run because that’s when I am myself. I will play because when I do I am in my own bubble where my soul speaks. I will run because it is meditation for me,… I will play because it is meditation of my soul. At that moment… all emotions appear stronger than at other times. Because I am myself. Because I feel my pulse, my heartbeat. I feel my body. I feel my emotions… If however you start to run too much, or play too much, you slip to the other extreme. You might become exhausted too quickly! And making any music in Slovakia – that is very courageous! But I have digressed… We want to run. We cannot set a fast pace because we could burn-up at the beginning, distribute our strength badly for our long route. Demotivation could take place too quickly. Just like in music. Tiredness. Exhaustion….. We just wanted to finish the run too quickly.
Again. Again. Trying.. The same route in different conditions. The feeling is never the same. The same concept of concert all the time – the feeling is never same. And then it comes…..
A chilling orgasm! Suddenly you feel like you understand the system of running, how your body reacts to the route, to a certain number of kilometres, to different weathers… Suddenly the mysterious indicator light goes on and you are refreshed by the mysterious feeling of great bliss which can hardly be described. You don’t know what it is. But you want it to happen again. You want it to come back.. Because you want to be happy again.
No, the number of kilometres is not important. No, the number of performed concerts is not important. Each performance is different, in different circumstances, just like the run – always different with the same route – but always different……..
No, the achievement is not important, whether you ran ten or a hundred kilometres, what matters is the feeling which makes you happy,…
However…
Sometimes, it is necessary to change the route. It is not anything negative.. It is just necessary to try something new, different, just like changing shoes, clothes or changing the music in the player during a run,… That is also how you need to think in music. Sometimes people identify you with something. And maybe even you will start to identify yourself with what you do. I am a musician, I am a runner…
But you know what? We are all runners at the end of day…. how should we run through our lives?
To see a lot? To try many routes? Whether to use shortcuts? Just try… shortcuts usually don’t pay off. The Universe will pay you back, don’t worry!
At the end of day – it doesn’t matter how much you see on your journey… We are not some sort of experience collectors. What matters are the feelings we have during our individual activities. At the end – we often change our roles. To identify ourselves with something – that is no victory. Not in running, nor in music. Because running – it is for your whole-life. Just like music. Music –is actually a long-distance run. Boundless.. It has no limits.. Individual genders blend.. there is always a way to move on, to proceed, just don’t box yourself in. The box could be too tight, just like shoes which didn’t use to hurt while running until recently… And suddenly they are not good enough!
I see music as a long-distance run… Endless journey through the corners of our souls, which blends with the worlds of other beings, they intersects, we swim in the world of souls, emotions.. we tune ourselves like we tune radios…….. to the correct A with the right frequency:-)
Persist, persist, persist…
Are you tired? Have you chosen a more difficult route? Don’t worry, during your next training session, you will feel that again you have learned something new ……….
Muscle fever,.. tiredness.. Soon however, the pain will be replaced by light…
In a sore body you suddenly feel a mystical chilling feeling and you know exactly why you are doing it, suddenly it all makes sense…
Piece after piece,..
Just don’t try to put them together too fast! Because this is how we, people, sometimes are ………….