30 Day Challenge (19-30)
Music has been my passion since I was a boy.
I remember spending many hours locked up in my room, pretty much like kids these days do with their video games and smartphones, listening to my dad’s old records.
I didn’t discriminate any genre of music.
Jazz, rock and roll, country music, whatever. If it was good music it was for me.
Back then I use to hear old people say that most of the new music that youngsters liked at that time wasn’t good and that proper music was the ones from their time so I started to believe that when people got old, they lost their ability to enjoy new music.
Obviously I didn’t appreciate those comments and saw it this behaviour as a sign of age.
I mean, old age so I promised myself that when I got older I’d try to be as open-minded as possible in terms of music so that I could somehow keep myself young for as long as I could.
At 47 I’m still trying to keep my promise, but the challenge is becoming harder by the hour.
It seems that we got to a point where singers don’t need to have a good voice and musicians as a whole don’t even need to play well their instruments. In fact, some of them don’t even have to play an instrument at all to be considered musicians.
Basically, if one is skilled enough to play a couple of songs and mixed them up in a sequence that the listeners feel like dancing this person is considered a musician and is risking to become quite rich and famous.
Even though I’m still open to new experiences, it’s getting harder and harder to get impressed with music nowadays.
I guess time has finally caught up with me, and I just become what I feared the most, which was to be an old man.
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30 Day Challenge (19-30)
Music has been my passion since I was a boy.
I remember spending many hours locked up in my room, pretty much like kids these days do with their video games and smartphones, listening to my dad’s old records.
I didn’t discriminate between any genre of music.
Jazz, rock and roll, country music, whatever. If it was good music it was for me.
Back then I use to hear old people say that most of the new music that youngsters liked at that time was no good and that real music came from their day so I began to believe that when people got old, they lose their ability to enjoy new music.
Obviously I didn’t appreciate those comments and saw this behaviour as a sign of age.
I mean old age, so I promised myself that when I got older I’d try to be as musically open-minded as possible so that I could somehow keep myself young for as long as possible.
At 47 I’m still trying to keep my promise, but the challenge is becoming harder by the hour.
It seems that we have come to a point where singers don’t need a good voice and musicians as a whole don’t even need to play their instruments well. In fact, some of them don’t even have to play an instrument at all to be considered musicians.
Basically, if one is skilled enough to play a couple of songs and mix them up in a sequence so the listener feels like dancing this person is considered a musician and risks becoming quite rich and famous.
Even though I’m still open to new experiences, it’s getting harder and harder to be impressed with music nowadays.
I guess time has finally caught up with me, and I am just become what I feared the most, an old man.
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30 Day Challenge (19-30)
Music has been my passion since I was a boy.
I remember spending many hours locked up in my room, pretty much like kids these days do with their video games and smartphones, listening to my dad’s old records.
I didn’t discriminate any genre of music.
Jazz, rock and roll, country music, whatever. If it was good music it was for me.
Back then I used to hear old people say that most of the new music that youngsters liked at that time wasn’t good and that proper music was the ones from their time, so I started to believe that when people got old, they lost their ability to enjoy new music.
Obviously I didn’t appreciate those comments and saw it this behaviour as a sign of age.
At 47 I’m still trying to keep my promise, but the challenge is becoming harder by the hour.
It seems that we got to a point where singers don’t need to have a good voice and musicians as a whole don’t even need to play well their instruments well. In fact, some of them don’t even have to play an instrument at all to be considered musicians.
Basically, if one is skilled enough to play a couple of songs and mixed them up in a sequence so the listeners feel like dancing, this person is considered a musician and is risking?? to become quite rich and famous.
Even though I’m still open to new experiences, it’s getting harder and harder to get impressed with music nowadays.
I guess time has finally caught up with me, and I just have become what I feared the most, which was to be an old man.
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