A New-Found Hobby..a long time in the making!

I always forget about this goal I have. It always seems to get pushed to the back-burner...and the eye turned off! Recently I have discovered that I really enjoy arranging and writing music. I have been doing stuff for church and it has sparked my interest in maybe finally sometime in the near future starting this hobby which I enjoy, which is music composition. I have been playing the flute for about...honestly I'm thinking I have no idea, 13 or 14 years? Yeah..anywho, I have always enjoyed that, but having gone to school to be a band director I have found a new respect for music as a composition or a whole. How does that saying go...Whole is equal to the sum of all its parts? I'm not convinced that it the saying, but the thought is still the same. The music is not complete if a part is absent. I always loved band for that reason. We were only as strong as our weakest link. Everyone did their part and we created music together. I am now interested in composing because it is the first creation or expression of a thought, a feeling...multiple and innumerable cascading emotions that become locked in time to be re-created as many times as people see inspiration in your creation. Hopefully I'm not rambling and losing everyone, but I truly do feel passionate about this...Finding time without neglecting anyone or anything else is the only obstacle. My brother-in-law has all kinds of recording equipment and is a very good guitar player. We keep trying to get together and do something, but the perfect time has not come yet. I have learned though that there is usually never a perfect time for anything without a lot of planning and organization, of which I'm not always the greatest at! I just wanted to put this out there in the blog arena so that I can hold myself accountable here soon.

I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music*: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.
-Martin Luther(*JST/Jennifer Stansel Translation-...good music:P)

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven

After silence that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
-Aldous Huxley

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
-Victor Hugo