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coffeesp00ns  ·  3041 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski, what's a light hearted confession you'd feel comfortable sharing?

I'm a musician. It's what defines me more than just about, if not anything else.

But I don't listen to music that much - I listen to CBC radio most of the time. And unless there's a really cool piece on the bill, I kinda don't even like going to concerts. As I've said to a friend before "If I'm not onstage, I'm not that interested."

great movies and great books inspire me more than great performances.





rrrrr  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That's actually quite common among musicians. I was talking with a couple of other musicians just the other day about this, and they said most of their musician friends felt "concerted out" after playing/singing their own shows and, despite the mild guilt they felt, didn't go to many others. We're not all like that though. I love going to concerts but can be very picky about listening to the same kinds of music I perform.

user-inactivated  ·  3040 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe it's because of the higher standards for music that you as a musician have. Ira Glass cites this higher standard and the fact that many artists quit without coming close to it as the main reason people quit arts they're sincerely passionate about. There's a Zen Pencils comic strip based on the speech here.