With whom do you share your music? Do you have reliable people who will support your creative process by giving you honest feedback while also understanding and respecting where you are coming from?

Who you are is inseparable from who you relate to. As social beings, we are constantly influencing and being influenced by others. By discerning who you share your art with you can more effectively direct the flow of your musical focus and learn to make the connection between the people in your life and the music that comes out of you. Your community, friends, collaborators, audience, and family members all have an influence on your music, so you might as well choose to be around people whose influence is positive and welcome.

Listen in on this episode as the link between music and relationships is explored from four distinct angles: friendship, competition, intimacy, and fantasy.

This is the second of four in the Musical Lifestyle Series of SOS podcasts.

 

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Is songwriting more than just something you do? Is music a way of life? How does your music influence your lifestyle? How does your lifestyle influence your music? Do you experience the same sense of creativity and adventure offstage as you do onstage?

Artists are often associated with certain lifestyles and they are not necessarily expected to be in sync with the rhythms and habits of mainstream society.  But what exactly makes up an artistic lifestyle? Is it the hours you keep? The friends you hang out with? The clothes you wear? The town you live in? If you look closely, you will probably find that the lifestyle and the music of the artist are intimately connected and that there are as many lifestyles as there are lives (just as there are as many musics as there are musicians).  So why is so little attention given to Conscious Lifestyle Design?

Join this SOS podcast as we begin to explore four foundational aspects of crafting a sustainable artistic lifestyle. 

This episode is an overview of the upcoming “Musical Lifestyle” series of podcasts. 

 

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