"I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen"
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Chantal Kreviazuk urges a creative posture that blends persistence with surrender. “Press on” suggests a daily commitment to the practice of writing, showing up even when inspiration feels distant. Momentum matters: the more consistently one engages, the more readily ideas surface. Rather than waiting for the perfect spark or a prescribed method, movement itself invites discovery. The insistence on “just go with it” rejects the paralysis of overthinking and encourages a relationship with art that is active, present, and responsive to whatever appears.
The rejection of “code” and “craft” is less a denial that technique exists and more a refusal to let technique dominate. Formulas can produce competence, but they rarely produce revelation. When music becomes a series of checklists, structure, hook placement, trend compliance, the result can be polished yet hollow. Kreviazuk points toward a deeper source: the voice that emerges when an artist stops trying to engineer approval and instead allows their lived experience, quirks, and contradictions to flow unfiltered. Authenticity is not the absence of skill; it’s the refusal to let skill smother soul. Craft still helps shape expression, but it follows essence rather than dictating it.
“Let yourself shine through your music” is a call to vulnerability. Let the rough edges remain where they carry truth. Write the line that scares you, sing the note that isn’t fashionable, keep the image that only you would have noticed. That risk is the very thing listeners recognize as real. The final assertion, if it’s meant to be loved and heard, it’ll happen, adds a liberating humility. Reception lies beyond control. The work is to make the truest song you can, share it, and release the outcome. Paradoxically, the most resonant art often arises at that intersection of relentless effort and graceful letting go: do the work, trust your voice, and allow the world to meet it on its own time.
The rejection of “code” and “craft” is less a denial that technique exists and more a refusal to let technique dominate. Formulas can produce competence, but they rarely produce revelation. When music becomes a series of checklists, structure, hook placement, trend compliance, the result can be polished yet hollow. Kreviazuk points toward a deeper source: the voice that emerges when an artist stops trying to engineer approval and instead allows their lived experience, quirks, and contradictions to flow unfiltered. Authenticity is not the absence of skill; it’s the refusal to let skill smother soul. Craft still helps shape expression, but it follows essence rather than dictating it.
“Let yourself shine through your music” is a call to vulnerability. Let the rough edges remain where they carry truth. Write the line that scares you, sing the note that isn’t fashionable, keep the image that only you would have noticed. That risk is the very thing listeners recognize as real. The final assertion, if it’s meant to be loved and heard, it’ll happen, adds a liberating humility. Reception lies beyond control. The work is to make the truest song you can, share it, and release the outcome. Paradoxically, the most resonant art often arises at that intersection of relentless effort and graceful letting go: do the work, trust your voice, and allow the world to meet it on its own time.
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