Today, we sat down with A Moment of Violence to talk about their inspiration to write music, music they listened to growing up and much more. Be sure to check out the music of A Moment of Violence on Spotify below after the interview!

Interview:

What is your inspiration to write your music? Is it your

surroundings?

I believe the biggest inspiration of music is life experience. It may be cliché, but clichés exist, because they hold truth. I try to write from the heart either from things I’ve gone through or seen, or I put myself in the shoes of people I see around me, or things happening in the world today, and take those feelings and put them into song. It feels good to write things that people can relate to through shared experience.

What type of music did you listen to growing up?

I feel like I listened to everything. My father would play music all the time in the house so I appreciate old rock and country, but I found my biggest influences in rock ‘n’ roll, and how it would always reinvent itself over the years. Even having an appreciation for hip-hop. I guess I’m just happy to have taken a large variety of influence, put it into a big pot, and came out with who I am today musically.

Is there someone you looked up as a hero?

Hero is a tough word for me, because I believe we unfortunately build people up to tear them down. But as far as influences go in music, there are front men who I took a little bit from over the years to form my own persona. Scott Weiland, Axel, Rose, Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Elias Soriano, and Fred Durst just to name a few that are more “well known” so to speak.

If you weren’t a musician, would you be doing today?

I could see myself working in the sports world. I’ve always been passionate about sports and competition, and it would also give the opportunity to help out young athletes to be better at what they do and better as people.

What advice do you have for our fans out there that want to create

music?

To put it simple, do it because you love it. Not because you’re chasing the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.  The music business can be ugly and quite often thankless at times but if you’re doing it because it’s what you love, nobody can take that from you.

Write your songs from the heart, and when you perform, it doesn’t matter if there’s 10 people or 10,000 people, perform it like like it’s the last time you’ll ever step on stage . Because in the end, if we are honest with ourselves, you have a better chance of the listeners believing.

Music: