What Are You Like Outside Of The Music World

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What Are You Like Outside Of The Music World, Ideas/suggestions/experiences

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jaime	Apr 18 2006, 08:39 AM Post #16
Unregistered	hey I can't help thinking that the majority of musicians who have posted in this thread are really clever. Isn't there a theory that musicians (and i think mathematicians) are more intelligent than other people because they use both hemispheres of their brains?..........??? I dunno about the whole 'people outside music' thing. Alot of my friends don't study music and they love the fact that we can sing around the piano. I also have lots of non-music friends who i value very highly. In my first years of secondary school, i think most people thought i was a geek...... but then i think they realised that musicians are the most friendly, caring and funniest people to be around, so eventually.... they all loved us! lol jaime

LoxRandom	Apr 21 2006, 10:06 PM Post #17
Unregistered	He.....maths and music are my main things, thanks for the compliment! Dunno why they're linked, but they seem to be. Since one's logical and the other artistic with a bit of logic involved, I'm stumped.

Devil_Fiddler	Apr 22 2006, 10:23 AM Post #18
Unregistered	Well people do say that playing an instrument makes you cleverer, but my mum has a theory that it's only really the more intelligent people who start to play an instrument and also practice enough to keep going.

xEmZx06	Apr 23 2006, 03:12 PM Post #19
Unregistered	QUOTE(jaime @ Apr 18 2006, 09:39 AM) In my first years of secondary school, i think most people thought i was a geek...... but then i think they realised that musicians are the most friendly, caring and funniest people to be around, so eventually.... they all loved us! lol Everyone seems to think that musicians are geeks to start off with I think don't they ? It's rather irratating, but then they actually realise that were totally cool and not from another planet, which is great because they also then notice how good you are and all sorts so smiles all round (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) QUOTE(Devil_Fiddler @ Apr 22 2006, 11:23 AM) Well people do say that playing an instrument makes you cleverer, but my mum has a theory that it's only really the more intelligent people who start to play an instrument and also practice enough to keep going. I know what you mean. More intelligent people are usually more determined to carry one with something so they get good results at the end

Morgan's Munchkin	Apr 23 2006, 09:21 PM Post #20
Unregistered	I'm not incredably smart, but im quite intelligent (predicted all A's at gcse - except a B in music). However i'm not exactl brilliant at music, and really struggle with it.

smileygirl	May 21 2006, 03:05 PM Post #21
Unregistered	inside school people think I'm clever but if you want people to be impressed with your playing just play fast I don't know but I did this gorgeous jazz piece and people were like well done then I played this deadsimple piece-fast and people were like wow. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) anyway out of school people think I'm thick so if I say I like music and i play th epiano they give me the raised eyebrows and are shocked when they hear me- but still by the fast piece

gwu	May 22 2006, 01:31 PM Post #22
Unregistered	I don't actually know any musical people in real life so before joining this forum, I very crassly generalised and assumed that highly musical people were scarily intelligent but perhaps lacked social skills. This is because at school, which I went to decades ago, those that were exceptional at music were intimidatingly academic but, erm, didn't really know how to relate to pupils or teachers on a social level. Of course, now that I've joined this forum, I know that very gifted musical people are highly intelligent AND are witty, sociable and normal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

smileygirl	May 22 2006, 03:28 PM Post #23
Unregistered	QUOTE Of course, now that I've joined this forum, I know that very gifted musical people are highly intelligent AND are witty, sociable and normal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Exactly... well I'm not sure I'm normal but that's just me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

xEmZx06	May 22 2006, 06:07 PM Post #24
Unregistered	QUOTE(smileygirl @ May 22 2006, 04:28 PM) QUOTE Of course, now that I've joined this forum, I know that very gifted musical people are highly intelligent AND are witty, sociable and normal. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Exactly... well I'm not sure I'm normal but that's just me (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) same here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

Piano gurl	May 23 2006, 06:17 PM Post #25
Unregistered	randomly joins in (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I find that teachers at my school tend to like it if you are musical. If you play in one of the concerts or something they're like "well done etc. etc. " the next day. Plus my latin teacher let me off all my homework last week because I had my clarinet and piano exams. hehe.... I think they like musical people because: ~ the sporty gang tend to be really naughty ~the drama peeps are rather DRAMATIC ~the people who have no hobbies are just BORING ~And, plus music people are wonderful! (not boasting or anything lol (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)) I have friends who are the most un musical people you'll ever meet and they are lovely! They totally understand when I am stressed out about exams. I don't know how they do..... I think I've just gone totally off the point here....... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Duke of The Viola Farm	May 25 2006, 09:29 PM Post #26
Unregistered	Trust me, there is no outside of the music world. All of my waking hours are spent practicing my viola (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Devil_Fiddler	May 26 2006, 01:19 PM Post #27
Unregistered	QUOTE(Duke of The Viola Farm @ May 25 2006, 10:29 PM) Trust me, there is no outside of the music world. All of my waking hours are spent practicing my viola (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) My friends do get quite annoyed if I'm stressing about an exam or whatever but it's good to talk to people on here to get it out of my system!! But they put up with me because they are lovely people even though none of them are the least bit musical!!!

Duke of The Viola Farm	May 27 2006, 04:21 PM Post #28
Unregistered	QUOTE(Devil_Fiddler @ May 26 2006, 02:19 PM) QUOTE(Duke of The Viola Farm @ May 25 2006, 10:29 PM) Trust me, there is no outside of the music world. All of my waking hours are spent practicing my viola (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) My friends do get quite annoyed if I'm stressing about an exam or whatever but it's good to talk to people on here to get it out of my system!! But they put up with me because they are lovely people even though none of them are the least bit musical!!! I wish my friends were behind me with my music!! But jealousy got to them, as when I reached FRSM Standard before my friend even took his Grade 3 test, I laughed and he left me forever. I havn't seen him since. Still, I love music more my friends.

fiddle_freak	May 28 2006, 01:27 PM Post #29
Unregistered	I just have the sudden urge to say... I luv you all, random hugs all round!!! lol Francesca xxx (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)

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