Great Quote...

"These moments of inspiration, for want of a better word, are moments of transparency, really. The thing that gets in the way - in our lives, not let alone in creativity, most of the time - is our brain, which steps in as a sort of editor of what we're seeing and receiving from our senses, and adds sort of consciousness to it, and we become aware, and it obstructs our progress in certain, sort of spiritual ways. So, there is a spiritual element to making music. When inspiration comes, you somehow have disengaged your consciousness just a touch. The flow of images comes, and it comes so quickly and so freshly that you know it's just a transparency, really. You've managed to remove the barrier, and you're just reaching straight in to the good stuff. And then, all you're using your brain to do is, as the process plays itself out, you arrange, like a collage type way; 'Oh, that image would be better there, or maybe I could use that in the chorus'. 


So, I've been through the process enough to know that when these things come out fully formed, you're less involved in a sense. So, it's only afterwards that people make up how wonderful they are, and their ego tells them how great it is that they've written these things. Really, the act of writing good music is to be able to get rid of all that; to get away from ego and just touch the purity of things, and see them for what they are. It's a fantastic feeling....so yes, you get ludicrously excited, and sort of, I don't know, I probably bite my fingernails down to nothing, scratch myself -- it's like an act of madness, actually. Really, I think if I filmed myself during the process, you are sort of possessed, so its giving in to the sort of possession."
- David Gray

Posted on Tuesday, September 22, 2009 by Nathan Dean