Most recently I have began dating a professional musician; besides doing the typical gigging and being a session artist he also scores video games-he writes the music you hear in the background of mobile media games. His job requires him to write around 40 hours of a music for each project and he doesn't like to repeat songs so how do you come up with all of that music? And not repeat?

Naturally watching game film and imagining what music you would expect to hear in each world during each task would give you ideas but that still leaves much to be desired.
As corny as it sounds I was told his most recent method to attaining to much inspiration-I'm his muse.

(cue all the awwwws and gagging noises and blah blah blah)


Every great artist at one point or another has a muse whether it's their significant other, someone they worship from afar, a family member and maybe even just an idea. Jim Morrison had Pamela Courson, Dante had Beatrice, Chagall had Bella, and Patti Boyd inspired the Beatles as well as Eric Clapton and Valerie Bertenelli inspired David Lee Roth. We all remember from the Odyssey how the muses were three goddesses of the arts. Since then the term muse has evolved to mean any source of great inspiration. Muses play a great role in the arts;  unyielding love is quite an emotion and can be joyous, sad, tortuous, and can drive quite a plotline which is why almost every story involves love right?

I used to be really annoyed and ticked off at how everything had to have some type of theme of love but once you experience how all consuming it is it's hard to NOT see why. Love is an emotion we all experience at some point in our lives no matter how black and dull you believe your soul is. We may not all experience the driving inspiration of a muse but a lot of us will, and again, a muse doesn't have to be your significant other.