CASPER: Hope and passion are the things I learned in the hardcore scene and that I still carry in me.
What do “hope” and “passion” mean to you?
Hope and passion are the things I learned in the hardcore scene and that I still carry in me. I knew pretty early that all I’d like to do is music. So even my study was some kind of “extra time” I took until I really was able to be just a musician. Like pushing the sudden death point to the future haha. When I did the “Hin Zur Sonne” album, we played tons of shows, even in shitty clubs with as few people in the crowd as you can imagine. But we always trusted in ourselves and said to ourselves that we can make it and we will make it someday. I think everyone who wants to do something, should just do it and invest a lot of energy and blood, sweat and tears. You have to love what you do and never give up. And just by being so focused you will make it somehow. I started doing music with 19 and it took me ten years until I was able to live from it. Ten years. Ten years of doing everything. Ten years of working in shitty jobs instead of taking my study for serious, because for me it always was clear that I don’t want to be a pedagog, I always wanted to play. It was a process of more than ten years. At some point I was physically sick, I was psychologically down, but still we worked on and on – even after only two hours sleep. I also don’t see our big shows as the result of one hit-album, I see it as the result of more then ten years work and more than ten years of eating shit. Yeah, for me the DIY thought is hope and passion.
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