Do you *NEED* TO perform ?

[MakiSupaStar]

This is about sex right?

That's what I thought. Now I have thread anxiety too. :scowl:

 

[AmyTheFreak]

Lol, you never told me what shows you've been in !!! ;p
I know a few theater majors, their crazy but, they're the funnest people to ever be around.

Ah! Haha!

I was in The Nutcracker when I was 9 or 10...
I was a policeman in The Pirates of Penzance
Lots of roles in a play called Paper Wheat (a play about the early development of Saskatchewan *snore*)
This year I was Mother Abbess in The Sound Of Music
And I've been in two One Acts and one small community theatre play.

And I should find out by Friday if I make the local productions of Anne of Green Gables and Beauty and the Beast.
I'll tell you what I get... or if I even make it

 

[Sundogue]

Playing music, listening to music is all well and good and, it can produce very positive feelings however it lacks the necessary prerequisites that describe a need.

...the necessary prerequisites that describe a need of the body.

So would love be a want? Is happiness a want? What about peace, fulfillment, etc.?

I agree that our bodies have basic needs. But I don't believe that my body is me, any more than my hand is my body. It surely is a part of it, but not it's entirety.

So any discussion of need versus want is a moot one, unless you believe everything you are is only what you see in the mirror.


I do find it interesting that any musician wouldn't consider needs of the soul.

 

[arbitrary]

That's what I thought. Now I have thread anxiety too. :scowl:

I don't think I'll be able to last.

 

[SteveC]

I could live without it, but I like to perform. You can only play with recordings and the like for so long before it gets old.

 

[txbasschik]

Who was it? "Rocken' will kill you, but, not rocken' will also kill you..." Deedee Ramone?

Yes, I believe it was Deedee who said that. I totally agree.

Cherie

 

[txbasschik]

Nope. To me, performance isn't what music is supposed to be about. Plus my ego doesn't need to be stroked.

Performing is not necessarily about having one's ego stroked. For me, its more about having that connection to the audience...the mutual flow of energy that comes from performer, to audience, and back from the audience to the performer again. For me, music alone is good, but it is just not enough. The spark, the joy, comes from sharing that with an audience.

Cherie

 

[txbasschik]

There is a difference between "want" and "need".

We need food, water, shelter and clothing.

Those are only physical needs. Humans also have mental, emotional, and spiritual needs.

For me, performing is a spiritual or emotional need. When life is such that I cannot perform, I constantly battle depression. I try to fill that hole with other things, but none of them are adequate.

I spent 15 years like that. I will not waste more years that way. I need to play, and I need to perform. It is what I am, soul-deep.

Cherie

 

[jomahu]

i just like playing. if it's on stage or in a room or whatever.

 

[Wesley R]

From about 14 until my early 30's I was ADDICTED to gigs.

Best of Luck,
Wesley R.

 

[Rakie]

Ah! Haha!

I was in The Nutcracker when I was 9 or 10...
I was a policeman in The Pirates of Penzance
Lots of roles in a play called Paper Wheat (a play about the early development of Saskatchewan *snore*)
This year I was Mother Abbess in The Sound Of Music
And I've been in two One Acts and one small community theatre play.

And I should find out by Friday if I make the local productions of Anne of Green Gables and Beauty and the Beast.
I'll tell you what I get... or if I even make it

Im going to try out for Phantom of the Opera in a few weeks !!! I'm actually really excited, I haven't actually been in a Musical yet, I just enjoyed them but... I can sing so, i'll give it a shot.