{"id":20114,"date":"2026-03-19T12:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/why-we-create-music\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T19:46:09","slug":"why-we-create-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/why-we-create-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we create music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why We Create Music\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/80072357?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"620\" height=\"264\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I am so grateful that I can make music. It&#8217;s a language that allows me to speak in the pure vocabulary of emotion with people. It allows me to relate to people in a way that is totally different from every other form of social interaction, even sport, which comes closest. &nbsp;And it allows me to connect with myself as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A bunch of musicians have put together <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alreadyalive.com\/films\/why-we-create-music\/\">a short film<\/a> that aims to tell you why they make music. If you are not a musician, it&#8217;s almost impossible for me to tell you WHY I make music, but I can always give you an experience of what it feels like. &nbsp;No one needs to be laden with the identity of &#8220;musician&#8221; to make music. I can show you right now. They next time you meet me, ask me to make music with you. We will do it on the spot and you&#8217;ll taste what it is that all musicians chase with this language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I found that by following a link from <a href=\"https:\/\/pattidigh.substack.com\/p\/strong-offers-and-5-links-to-ponder-536\">Patti Digh<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifindoubtcreate.co.uk\/musings\/5-beautiful-articles-about-creativity\">a site about creativity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am so grateful that I can make music. It&#8217;s a language that allows me to speak in the pure vocabulary of emotion with people. It allows me to relate to people in a way that is totally different from every other form of social interaction, even sport, which comes closest. &nbsp;And it allows me to connect with myself as well. A bunch of musicians have put together a short film that aims to tell you why they make music. If you are not a musician, it&#8217;s almost impossible for me to tell you WHY I make music, but I &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-5eq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20116,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions\/20116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}