Saturday, November 27, 2010

Being a Child

I stayed up all night November 26th (well actually, it was November 27th) and I, thankfully, stumbled upon the video that showed Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros recording "Home" on NPR:


I quickly became intrigued with this group of people. I started looking up interviews and music videos. Anything.

I was watching an interview and Alex Sharpe was answering questions. One of them was about how people can't help but to be moved by their performance and how does it effect the goals of their performance. She asked if it altered it at all.
His response was amazing. It was surely something I'll never forget.

He said 'to be like a child' is all he needs to remember and as soon as he remembers that everything is wonderful. He's completely free.
He said, "Its not about posturing or performing or posing or manicuring my performance... If its real, they'll feel the realness."

Its not hard to be real with your own music and your own expression of music and I believe its something completely beautiful when someone is real with their expressions. It makes me excited and happy to be making music.

I love the idea of freedom (especially freedom from sin). We age and grow up and get more responsibility thrown onto our shoulders, but we are able to almost walk blindly through this life and have complete faith and trust in our Lord. Once we indulge ourselves in this free way of thinking, people will feel the realness.
Here's what to take from this: I get to be free, like a child, every day and for all eternity and there is nothing else I'd rather be.