Meet Marshall Kilpatric

We were lucky to catch up with Marshall Kilpatric recently and have shared our conversation below.

Marshall, thanks so much for taking the time to share your insights and lessons with us today. We’re particularly interested in hearing about how you became such a resilient person. Where do you get your resilience from?

I get my resilience from knowing that no matter how bad it can seem to be, it can and most certainly will always get better if you have the right outlook, mindset, and perspective. By retaining that sense of self-worth, value, love, and positivity – and remembering how that affects those around me. And by always remembering that nothing is permanent, everything is temporary. Change is the only constant. Patience and Balance is key. The harder we fail or fall, the higher we rebound and ascend…that universal rubber band effect.
I have endured the highest of highs, making my dreams come true and achieving heights and realities that many do only dream of. I have also experienced the lowest of lows, real life nightmares that one only wishes remained in the dream realm. As such, I take nothing for granted. Nothing in this world is worth the stress that can kill you, and it certainly can. Therefore, I strive to always look for that magick silver lining in everything, keeping the glass half full rather than empty, which also lends itself to keeping my sense of optimism alive. I look for what good can come from any situation. I know in every failure and mistake is an opportunity to learn and do better.
Loss in all forms and heartbreak can be soul and spirit crushing, but it is vital to find ways to mitigate, manage, process. Finding a strong source of centeredness in spirituality, in loved and trusted friends and family, in my soulmate/partner and best friend in life, and with music, art, and writing help me through these tribulations. I find the way out by going through. Healing and evolution is always enduring.

Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?

I am primarily a solo artist who expresses myself musically, vocally, and visually through The Behaviour. Previously known as the drummer for a plethora of different groups such as The Esoteric, Black Light Burns, Seaspin, and many others, I now focus my creative energies and endeavors through the melodies, rhythms, and visuals of The Behaviour. For myself, it is a never-ending form of healing through these expressions. It also serves as a method of self-exploration through observations of the psyche and external environments. After many years spent writing and performing music in so many different ventures, The Behaviour illustrates best who I am and how I perceive both worlds seen and unseen. While this is cathartic and therapeutic for me, I truly hope that others can equally find inspiration and ways of healing through the resonating frequencies.
You can find The Behaviour’s debut album, A Sin Dance on all streaming platforms. A new EP is currently being recorded with an expected release date of fall of 2025. I also will be performing for the first time in over a decade with The Esoteric for a special one-off reunion concert at the Warehouse on Broadway, located in Kansas City on April 4th, 2025.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

1. Perseverance – never giving up while believing in myself and what I can achieve.
2. Acceptance – of myself and all my faults, failures, and mistakes made, while also knowing I am a good person with a good heart who strives to have integrity in all I do. As well as accepting the differences in perspectives, points of view and opinions, ways of life, and any and all differences in others. One never truly knows what someone else is enduring or experiencing. Also, as a wise saying goes-by asking a higher power for the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
3. Fortitude – having courage and strength while facing adversity in any setting. The harder the challenge, the harder I work to overcome it and accomplish my attainable goals.
Practice self love, know your self worth and value. Believe in yourself and what you are capable of. Respect others, act always with love, empathy, compassion, and kindness. Do not be selfish-the more you give, the more you will receive. This applies in every way of being, doing, and living and cannot be understated!
I can only speak for myself, but I encourage others to consider this – sobriety is a key factor to living to your fullest potential. While I do condone the usage of some mind expanding or other alternative forms of therapy in controlled environments, living in an altered state of consciousness for too long or becoming dependent on such substances lowers your vibration and frequency. This can be considered desirable if you are an extremely sensitive person and/or empath, and is too common in creatives. But finding one’s way on the path and journey towards a healthier lifestyle is best achieved when fully aware of any and all micro changes occurring around one’s self and others, helping in solidifying your perceptions of what is truly going on in the world and people around you.

Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?

I cannot list just one, that is impossible-but I will narrow it down to three.
1. Individuality – encouraging me to be my own person and to find my own sense of purpose and identity in this world.
2- Created a never-ending desire and hunger for learning/knowledge – my mother influenced and encouraged me to always read, to never close off my mind to the well of knowledge available in the world to voracious minds. She instilled in me that it never ceases as we grow, age, evolve, mature. In fact just doing so creates the need to always keep an open mind to learning new things. To quote Socrates, “a wise man knows he knows nothing.”
3. Creativity – my parents bought me my first drum set when I was four (actually it was Santa…). Being a musician, my father had an indelible influence upon me to learn how to play music. He was a guitarist, but having his band rehearse in our home somehow steered me towards the drums. Perhaps it was the fact that I would crawl next to the bass drum to fall asleep, or maybe what my parents were listening to while I was in the womb. Regardless, it set me on my path towards becoming a drummer/musician in life, so much so that by the time I was in high school my “day job” was being hired and becoming the drummer for my father’s band. The rest, is not just history, but ongoing in any and every way…

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