ADAM PAVITT

Steal Words is an optimistic song about finding what you are meant to be doing. I am at my happiest when i am doing something i love. We should all try to follow our dreams. Find what it is that makes us tick and just go for it!
So many people are doing something they hate for a living and complain that they are too scared to try something new. Why not try and repalce what you are “just doing” piece by piece with the things that you were “born to do”. A great many secret desires to be more creative are swept aside. When we are young we are told that we are great dancers, great singers, great painters and actors. Then as we grow our performances get judged more harshly, until our creative talents are often snuffed out all together. The once prolific creative soul becomes someone who “cannot dance, draw,sing in key or write a story”. Society has crushed the idea that art is ok in whatever form it takes. The individual must be allowed the freedom to express without the commentary stating “trees are green, not red”, or “your fingers are too short to be a pianist”. All the criticism can cripple the inner artist. If you are an artist say it loud and proud. The world would be alot more beautiful if there were more of us.
The fear is the problem. With talent shows pulling people up for a few out of key notes or attacking their song choices, what hope do we have for new or interesting sounds to develop? So much safe and re-hashed music saturates the airways. This is often because the taste-makers have never sung a note onstage. They are interested in what sells or what can be repackaged and sold again.
So many teachers crush creativity because their art has been stifled. It is a vicious cycle and yet there is hope. It makes people happy when they express themselves. Often the urge to create is so strong that nothing or no-one can hold it back the flowering. The knock backs just make the artist push harder and eventually they are surviving..and then thriving off their art.
Music is a great connection between people. Young, old, female, male, rich, poor- music is a global unifying force. I have made it my business to take my guitar to work now for the last few years. I run music groups for people with a disability and have seen some amazing things in the process. Music brings us out of our shell. It taps into some thing deep in the psyche. I have seen someone ‘walk like an Egyptian who could barely walk at all. I have heard people sing who barely ever speak. All this has come from sharing music together. Every day i am thankful that music is such a big part of my life.
I have struggled with confidence and technique and i am constantly trying to improve. I have learned to relax in the moment and enjoy the sound of the vibrations.
I did a few demos with an artist known as Ray Right a few years back. He rented a house by himself and had a nice studio. Along with an extensive collection of guitars and bass guitars, he had a lage number of cats. Ray survived off busking, singing and selling hard waste. He introduced me to a book called ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron and convinced me that living your art is a daily practice. Besides great advice Ray also gave me a great companion in my cat ‘Madam Pat The Cat’.
Steal Words has a nice build in the second chorus that lifts into a dreamy crescendo. It reminds me of the amazing feeling that i can get from playing music. when i listen back to this track the moment that springs to mind is from a day at Richmond train station (VIC) when Ray appeared. He told me that he had been standing around the corner out of sight for the last 20mins, as he did not want to interrupt me. When he told me how much he had been enjoying my music and that he wanted to record me i was thrilled! When you feel that your music has truly connected with someone, it is hard to describe the overwhelming positive feeling that it gives you. Steal Words is about just that….You can steal the words to someones song to put on your wall or a t-shirt. you can have your own ideas about what the song means to to you. You can even use it as “our song” for you and your partner……and the artist will most likely be thrilled. The spark of inspiration that made them write the song or even pick up an instrument in the first place, has warmed someone’s heart and the world is a better place for it.