There's this thing that happens, often, when I listen to music.
I think it's the result of my current state of mind aligning with the emotion of a piece of music, such that listening to it just feels incredibly right and inspirational.
I've always kind of wondered if there was anything I could do with that feeling, powerful as it is. Is it possible for us to transform the emotion we're given as an audience into our own creation? I think it must be. It's a difficult feeling to hold on to long enough to get into the act of creation, however.
Perhaps visual arts are more useful for that sort of thing; they can sit on the wall and stare at you, delivering their emotion continually for more than a few minutes at a time. Maybe I need to do a better job of surrounding myself with sights that I appreciate; not simply music.
