Originally Posted By: eddie1261
Tell me how ridiculous it would be if you posted on Facebook and said "Tomorrow I start working for a new client that says his taxes are a mess." And 25 people replied "YES!!!!" with thumbs up and heart emojis. Because you are going to WORK???


OK, I think I get this now.

You resent what you regard as inappropriate admiration because you think it denies you credit for the work you do to make the music you make.

If people type thumbs up and emojis, it means they think music is magic and you, the musician, are merely a priest privileged to be its conduit to others. It also means they think they do NOT make music only because they are NOT so privileged, not because they don't do that WORK.

If someone asks, "Are you excited?" before a show, it means they're thinking, "Are you ready to receive a gift from the universe that you will share with us?" and don't understand that good musicianship requires hard work.

Seriously. Something like that?

I recently ran into a weird personal thing with a friend who got cranky if I told her I admired her professional success in real estate. Eventually I understood that she felt my admiration meant I thought she was just "gifted" and so didn't have to work hard at it, though of course I never thought anything like that. Eventually I understood she really needed me to understand how much pain she had gone through to get where she was. What she never understood was that my admiring her success never meant thinking it was effortless.