This is a guest post by Levente

For one, devoting your life to any kind of art is not only honourable and good, but it is also very natural

Like the more time I spend creating and playing music, the more that’s all I want to do

Sometimes I get annoyed when Soso or  or Lablah the bandees want to smoke weed for like 45 minutes when my brain is wanting to be submerged in playing music

And that’s a voluntary activity

But it takes away from what’s pulling my very existence

On the other, life is here for the living and though there are so many facets of songwriting that you could indeed spend every waking moment on it and never run out of things to improve and create.

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If you don’t take the time to live life, and enjoy some of it, take in art whether it be in games, TV, film, books, or anything else, you deny yourself the possibility of any of those things expanding your creative mind and leading you to places you wouldn’t have gone otherwise


Not to mention receiving art into your mind is a way of connecting with all the humans who made it, and therefor gives you practice at connecting with humans, seeing how other artists do it, and draw your own conclusions there.

I’d argue that a great portion of art creation is sharing existence with other humans. You think the composers of yore didn’t have hobbies on the side?

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