If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.
I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.
My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.
I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.
You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
While other kids played with cars and toys, I listened to music all day. I wanted to sing it and learn it.
I loved music - listening and playing - but of course I could not imagine I would be a professional musician. It really happened step by step.
I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.
It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do.
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
I don't see that many plays, and for me, musicals are rarely pleasing.
What followed was a great treat for me. This was Irish traditional music as I had hoped to see and hear it, spontaneous and from the heart, and not produced for the sake of the tourist industry. As I sat there with my pint in my hand, enjoying the ji...
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Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on th...
