Why I keep journals (online and offline): Musicians spend a lot of time thinking about sounds and how to organize those sounds in meaningful ways. Often, those wordless tones take up a lot of space in my mind. It is easy to get so caught up in the beauty of music that the ablity to organize thought with words is forgotten. Even though I sing I'm often thinking about other things in addition to the words. There is so much that goes into performing a word--breathing, toning, concentrating, expressing, etc.