I just finished Daniel Levitin's I Heard There Was A Secret Chord. In the chapter about using songwriting to treat PTSD, he writes, "Music helps us express and process emotions that we cannot express in words, to others or even to ourselves."Music can be thought of as a proxy for language--a kind of "emoji", but when you're writing lyrics, it can be an obsession over words, and can go on
Published on October 22, 2024 03:41