A Thing About the So-Called "Deep" Musician

Sometimes I get annoyed (and pissed) if a musician (or someone he/she claims to be) comes along and criticizes one’s music, pointing out that it shouldn’t be like that, that it should be like this and that, that something isn’t really necessary, or blabber about someone better than that.

Personally, I think such persons are not musicians at all. Music has so many forms – so many genres, that one skill or fundamental in one form might or might not be applicable to another. Jazz doesn’t sound like rock. You might do a jazz lick in a metal song and it probably it wouldn’t sound metal. My point is, everything has its place in music, so don’t criticize like there’s too much solos in a metal song because metal songs ARE SUPPOSED TO BE METAL SONGS.

Another thing : when you do expressions while playing, that’s because you feel the music. Standing there stolid and looking like an electric post while the music being played is bouncy may not be the best to do, but at least feel the music that you’re playing. The word is EXPRESSION – it is the way you express yourself through the music that you play – whether it be through clothes you wear, the expressions you make or how you play your instrument. I mean classical players don’t need to dress like rock musicians because their genres are not the same. A musician’s skill is a gift from God so why would you criticize others?

Be true to yourself and before you criticize music. Examine yourself. Are you being true to your music or are you just doing it because you think you know so much or you’re so good in your music that you look down on others in doing their own? IF you are really a person from God, how could you look down on others and criticize them for what God has given them? Is it pride? Is it because of ego? Is it because you want people to look at you as someone who is so good in music? Do you want them to think that you’re so meticulously in music and ingrain in their minds that you are superior to others? I think you’re not being a musician at all.

Look at yourself first before pointing your finger to others. If you don’t like a song, don’t FUCKING listen to it.