We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jaryn Jones a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.
Jaryn, we’re thrilled to have you on our platform and we think there is so much folks can learn from you and your story. Something that matters deeply to us is living a life and leading a career filled with purpose and so let’s start by chatting about how you found your purpose.
Finding one’s purpose can take years to discover. For me, I grew up believing in a greater plan that goes beyond this life, and that plan is designed around our time here on earth where we are here to find our purpose, our reason to live, our self; with that, I am always looking for purpose in everything I do. Two being, a composer and lyricist. I found my love for writing in high school when I lost a friend to suicide. I didn’t know how to express my feelings of grief except through the piano. Music was an important way to cope through feelings that were too complicated to talk through. In that time of life and many experiences thereafter, I started realizing my love for music and creativity in songwriting. My purpose for music is to share my authentic self to the world so that it can be a comfort and refuge for someone else, even if it is just one person.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
Summer 2019, I intern for Imagine Dragons/buy pizza for The Killers, pick up their dry cleaning, a music internship in the heat of Las Vegas, NV. I am learning artist management, but – epiphany – I don’t want to manage artists. I want to be one. I have two life-options: take myself seriously as an artist or continue subsisting in spaces that are “safe.” I graduate with my Bachelor’s in Commercial Music and move to Nashville, TN. Covid summer, 2020, navigating spaces and angles of life under duress, life unknown and uncertain. There are seven types of angles; definition, the position from which something is looked at . . . Life is slanted, tilted, angled. This is how I write it . . . Currently, I perform at local writer’s rounds, collaborate with artists, and released my first EP, “Angles”. I write instinctually, on what comes natural in the creative process. I value music that is authentic and leaves me wanting more; I want my listeners to be left wanting more.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
Never stop chasing your dreams. Never allow the world to force you into something you’re not. Never stray from the moment you’re in because that moment will be gone before you know it. Never stop creating, no matter what form that may be; we are all creators in our own way, and we are meant to create.
Be kind to yourself, allow space for growth and humility. Ask a lot of questions. And, most importantly, never stop learning.
What has been your biggest area of growth or improvement in the past 12 months?
One year isn’t very long, is it? But, a lot can happen in one year. I’d say, my biggest area of growth has been to let go of what I can’t control. I am a perfectionist, control freak, all of the above. As a musician, I have had to learn to allow mistakes in my life, imperfections in my projects, and flat keys to be sung in live gigs. It happens. When I let go, and I see things from the larger perspective, I am more proud of the confidence I’ve built in myself as an artist/songwriter and welcome in more creativity in my work.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/jarynjones
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jaryn_jones/
- Facebook: https://linktr.ee/jarynjones
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@Jaryn_Jones
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