My input from Music Matters on Creativity

In my opinion, listening alone can be a matter of creating. Speaking from my own experience, there are times when I’m just listening to music in passing because it’s playing in my surroundings. Then there are times when I really listen to a song to get ideas. When I hear a great chord progression, great words, or how each instrument is stacked I visualize and create in my mind of how I can draw from the existing song. I’m creating in my imagination just by listening to something that fits my own personality. Once the listening is done, the creativity is still emerging because the tune is still in my head and then it makes me want to write my own ideas on paper. I may have never created my original song of a particular type if I hadn’t had a creative experience in my mind while listening to an influential piece. Musical imagination is still creating in my opinion.