We've been alienated from creative expression, as a culture, over the last 100 years or so. This is a result of commercialization and the capitalist impulse to monetize. "Why study music if you can't get famous", the thought goes.
But there's a rich tradition of making music for the sake of it, to tell stories, to entertain one another, to amuse yourself. To do it because there's nothing better to do.
I'm trying to reconnect with the past through my musical practice. There's almost an element of ritual about it? But at least there's intention.