reasons why making music is infinity times better than listening to music

-No matter your skill level on an instrument, there is at least one White Stripes song you can play ("Little Room")
-You only go to concerts to stand in a room and be jealous of the person on stage; if you play an instrument, you can be that person you are jealous of, plus or minus the crowd and skill.  Who cares about those things anyways?
-playing to a crowd of zero is the same as playing to a thousand.  just with a crowd of zero, there are no expectations, therefore you can be as horrible as you want. or as good as you want, and then you get the satisfaction of knowing that thousands of people missed out on something.
-Making your own music is an experience that transcends words.  There aren't that many things that do that in our world without a horrible addiction added on. Or else a huge price tag.
-when you are making your own music, you decide on the direction.  Feel the need for a long solo, or maybe a even longer outro?  Go ahead.  Nothing's pre-recorded.  It's the ultimate Choose Your Own Adventure book, but with music.
-It's great therapy.  There have been countless crappy days that were less crappy once I played my guitar for a bit.
-It makes you smarter.  I remember every single orchestra teacher I ever had saying this and then citing a study that proves this fact.  I don't know what they were trying to do.  Help us justify playing in the orchestra to our disapproving parents?  Recruit our over-achieving friends into orchestra?  Give the kids who want to quit a reason to stay?  no idea.
-If you learn three chords, the sky is the limit song-wise my friend.  Add in a minor chord, and you can make any of those songs a bit more depressing sounding.  Take that for being so upbeat, Taylor Swift!
-Or else you can make a already depressing song not depressing.
-and the list could go on and on, but that's all I could think of, or at least put into words.

added bonus, I put out a slough of new stuff on my soundcloud page, so you can hear semi-good music and go out and make your own semi-good music.  No one said you have to sound like Jimmy Page in order to feel good about how awesome you are at guitar.  Thats me.  Awesome at Guitar (if you didn't notice, I sang that in a falsetto voice.)(that's what most writers mean when they underline and italicize something)

added bonus to the added bonus that is unrelated to this whole article- I made a drawing to see if I can still draw since this semester I am taking my first real art class since junior high.  I put on some music (70 decibels is best to spur creativity but I already knew that my whole life, but was persecuted by teachers for knowing this.) and then this flowed out of my pen. I don't fully understand it myself, but I still got it.  but in a few months, "it" will be much better.  I'm thinking of one series I will title, "authors chillin with dinosaurs" and maybe some better thought out ones.