Piano Forum

With music I feel there needs to be an image or idea in the mind, some kind of emotional thought and release coming from the heart and soul of a person.

A performer might feel something but individual audience members may feel something else. It is wise not to become too self absorbed in what you think you are transmitting because a performer should consider what their audience might be thinking otherwise they may simply lose connection with them and instead be lost in a world of their own. One can have personal thoughts and story telling in their mind while playing but it should aid in your expression rather than be the source of expression, the music stands alone without us having to feel it is sourced from our own thoughts.

What do you think about the purpose and meaning of practising for piano?

What do you mean practicing? You mean training yourself to actually play the piano better? The meaning and purpose is quite logical and needs no response. If you mean why play the piano at all, well it's no different why people take up all sorts of different creative arts. The personal meaning can be various, ultimately people do it because they enjoy doing it, then there are a huge variation of specific reasons why they enjoy doing it.

Here is me playing for goodness of humanity (check out my "about section") I imagine the suffering and hope for people of this world, and that is something important for my mind's health and for others

How can one feel "suffering and hope" in piano playing? Even vocal music which has words directing ones attention cannot always transmit a specific emotion and listeners will make varying interpretations. So it is wise to be somewhat more controlled in what you feel deeply when playing, you don't want music to play you (you may get melodramatic thoughts which overtake you and make you emotionally drunk but unaware of the real transmission of your work), you want to play the music. If your feelings are enormous it may transmit to uncontrolled playing. This can be desirable in certain instance, especially if you are undergoing free improvisation for example but when you are playing something composed we need to be more reserved, more controlled, masters of our emotion.