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No wonder we all seek to express ourselves in some way. To achieve success in music we need a band, as a solo career is no longer popular. And now you are between decisions how to choose the band members to share you dazzling ups.

Well, there are two ways out:
1.To involve professional musicians into the project and to divide obligations in advance. The only thing acquired is your own professional skills.
2.To surround yourself with deer friends and start following the path of studying altogether.

No matter which way you will go, just don’t haste. It may happen the guitarist will tear a strip off or the drummer will misfit a drum set. It’s no use shouting on them. We all make mistakes every now and then.
First of all try studying few easy songs, like My Girl by Nirvana. But don’t jump into mastering jazz or grind core, as the Suicidal Tendencies, the Red Hot Chili Peppers or the Slipknot represent.

For joint work to be fruitful enough, you should organize rehearsals into two parts, the way, one will be devoted to revising already studied songs and the other one will be used for improvisation, which is of a great value, as the band members study to predict every next step of each other. Its’ you feeling every sense of music in the result. You can feel it’s aliveness by letting it through your mind. But the main thing is not to feel down in case everything is not as excellent as you have imagined. It’s much worse to loose pleasure in playing and creating music.

What concerns recommendations of experienced musicians, they are worth listen to, however, keep it in mind, it’s up to you, which of them to choose to follow.

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Discover the phenomenonal complexity of music and reflect on the way it can positively influence your life with this sound collection of riveting quotes…

1. “Music, the greatest good that mortals know, And all of heaven we have below.”
   – Joseph Addison

2. “Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
   –Maya Angelou

3. “Music is either good or bad, and it’s got to be learned. You got to have balance.”
   – Louis Armstrong

4. “Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”
   – Berthold Auerbach

5. “The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.”
   –Johann Sebastian Bach

6. “Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
   – Ludwig van Beethoven

7. “Music - The one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.”
   – Ludwig van Beethoven

8. “Music can change the world. “
   – Ludwig Van Beethoven

9. “Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.”
   – Leonard Bernstein

10. “Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live. “
    – James Brown

11. “Music is well said to be the speech of angels.”
    – Thomas Carlyle

12. “All music comes from God.”
    – Johnny Cash

13. “If you learn music, you’ll learn most all there is to know. “
    – Edgar Cayce

14. “Music is nothing separate from me. It is me… You’d have to remove the music surgically. “
    – Ray Charles

15. “Good music is good no matter what kind of music it is. “
    – Miles Davis

16. “There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”
    – George Eliot

17. “You are the music while the music lasts.”
    –T. S. Eliot

18. “We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. “
    – Jerry Garcia

19. “Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.”
    – Kahlil Gibran

20. “When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had and never will have.”
    – Edgar Watson Howe

21. “Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossile to be silent.”
    – Victor Hugo

22. “The history of a people is found in its songs.”
    – George Jellinek

23. “Music is the vernacular of the human soul.”
    – Geoffrey Latham

24. “It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
    – Walter J. Lippmann

25. “Just as certain selections of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, so other musical works will bring greater health to your mind.”
    – Hal A. Lingerman

26. “Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.”
    – Giuseppe Mazzini

27. “Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don’t take it too seriously.”
    – Henry Miller

28. “I started making music because I could.”
    – Alanis Morissette

29. “Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life. “
    – Alanis Morissette

30. “Music is spiritual. The music business is not. “
    – Van Morrison

31. “Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.”
    – Theodore Mungers

32. “Without music life would be a mistake.”
    – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

33. “In music the passions enjoy themselves.”
    – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

34. “Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. They teach you there’s a boundary line to music. But, man, there’s no boundary line to art.”
    – Charlie Parker

35. “Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside. “
    – Elvis Presley

36. “It’s the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy. “
    – Lou Reed

37. “The music business was not safe, but it was FUN. It was like falling in love with a woman you know is bad for you, but you love every minute with her, anyway.”
    – Lionel Richie

38. “Music should never be harmless.”
    – Robbie Robertson

39. “Give me a laundry list and I’ll set it to music.”
    – Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

40. “All music is important if it comes from the heart. “
    – Carlos Santana

41. “Music is the key to the female heart.”
    – Johann G. Seume

42. “The best music… is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. “
    – Bruce Springsteen

43. “All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.”
    – Bruce Springsteen

44. “In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.”
    –George Szell

45. “When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
    – Henry David Thoreau

46. “For heights and depths no words can reach, music is the soul’s own speech.”
    –Unknown

47. “Most of us go to our grave with our music still inside of us.”
    –Unknown

48. “I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn’t just a fad. This is a positive thing.”
    – Eddie Vedder

49. “Music at its essence is what gives us memories. “
    – Stevie Wonder

50. “There’s a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don’t know what it is. But I’ve got it.”
    – Ron Wood

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Ever since turning 35 years old I’ve had a nagging feeling that my life had somehow changed. Where once there was wonder and amazement at the simple things in life like a cloudless summer day, or the unspoilt scenery of the countryside, these things stir little inside of me. It takes a lot more to excite me now than a few years ago. I talked to my friends who were the same age as me, and yes they felt the same way. What was it - what’s changed?

We came to conclusion that it was hope we had lost - the hope of a better tomorrow. When we were younger the future was always there and we’d always be young enough to change our lives and change our fortunes. The realisation that we’ve reached and passed the peak of our lives is a shocking one. It’s too late for me now to get that degree and become a lawyer. I’m never going to go to university and then on to become a world famous brain surgeon. Don’t get me wrong, I love my life and I love my family, it’s just that I always thought that one day I’d make the ‘big time’.

I’ve played guitar and sung since I was nine years old. Learning more and more songs and even writing a few of my own. I believed that one day I’d make it. Perhaps a talent scout would hear me play or I’d get around to making that demo tape and sending it off. Sadly a hundred and one other things got in the way - girls, cars, motorbikes, work, marriage and kids. I wouldn’t change any of that for the world, but now I’m in my mid-thirties it’s finally occurred to me that my big breaks just not going to happen.

The answer to being happy once in your mid-thirties, I’ve decided, is to fill your life with the things you always wanted or thought you might one day have, just on a more realistic scale. Thus begins my quest for musicians to jam with. I tried the band thing when I was a teen and wasn’t impressed. There were too many people with large egos trying to railroad everyone else into doing it their way. Now I’m looking for people like me. I’ve readjusted my dreams. Now I just want to find some people to play with. No false hopes of becoming famous and gigging way into my seventies! Just regular guys and girls who also have lives they love, but want to play music with others.

For me playing the guitar and singing helps me feel grounded and at peace with the world (ok ..Maybe just a little more at peace) and I know others feel the same way about their hobbies. It’s important not to lose sight of the fact that just because we’re not young doesn’t mean life is over. As long as I’m still physically capable I will still be riding my motorbike and playing my guitar. The dream of strapping the guitar to my back and riding my motorbike around the world might be gone now but that doesn’t diminish the pleasure both give me.

So who cares if my band is never going to get a song in the charts (or even play on stage at Butlins!)? Does it really matter if I’m never going to be champion motorcycle racer? There are enough people in my life who love me and enjoy listening to me playing guitar and singing to make me feel perfectly happy with today - and tomorrow. My wonder at the world we live in has finally returned.

Please visit my web site at www.iwantedtobeapopstar.co.uk

Sam Salmon runs http://www.iwantedtobeapopstar.co.uk helping amateur musicians find others to play with.

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