So I have been thinking a lot about that concept. I for one do not consider my self a musicians by any means because, well I'm not public about my abilities at all. I have been one, since the time I have learned how to play the guitar to pretty much now, to not express my abilities to play and sing to many people. I think there is a handful that have heard me sing and play and the reasons behind that are because I'm kinda shy about it. I get a little nervous I cant help it. Speaking in front of people I can do. No problem. The mission has taught me to do that, but playing and singing in front of people is different. I wish I was able to be more outward about my abilities to do so. I have played the guitar in my father's store for a few years just messing around as people are shipping off their packages and standing in line and I would get the occasional compliment saying "hey you are pretty good" by the forty five year old soccer mom or the sixty five year old snow bird, but for me to sit down and play in front of my friends, or sit down and play in front of others I get nervous. And I shouldn't get nervous because they are my friends but I still do.
I play the guitar every day. Every day i pick up that instrument and sit in my room by my self and play and sing to my self in the mirror. Those of you reading this are probably saying "what a loner! you square!" haha but its just something I enjoy doing. I would rather sit in my room and listen to music and play the guitar than watch a reality TV show or just TV in general. It is something that I really enjoy doing for many reasons. One of them being that there is always a challenge. You can always challenge your self more to play something a little more complicated. I will probably never get to be someone great like Eric Clapton or SRV or even John Mayer and am not anything close, but I will take it as far as I want to take it. And that is why I enjoy it.
Music is an important part of my life. Now there are many of you that have known me for years and think that I listen to just country music but that is not the case at all. Over the years I have been broadening my horizon of music likes. And today I like a variety of music ranging from Johnny Cash to Jack Johnson to Kanye West to Norah Jones and Michael Buble. If it is done well, I like it. If its not too heavy I like it. If its got a good line in it, I like it.
Soo maybe I will consider my self a musician to an extent because there are some that are just completely out there and I am definitely not one of those but I will consider my self a musician that likes to hide his abilities to play and still hasn't opened up about it and might not ever haha but just sayin. A friend of mine recently mentioned that you are your worst critic, so maybe one day if I don't criticize myself about it as bad, then I will. Who knows. Just my thoughts because this is my piece of cyber space.
A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence....true that.
