Why this obsession with music? Music is good, in it's place, such as the concert hall, but I don't want to hear music when I am holding the phone, standing in a elevator, in a store or restaurant or walking down the street. And certainly not when I am smoking. Silence is better.
Foggy!!! You're killin me! :crying:
Ok, fine, I may be biased as my life literally revolves around the study, performance, and sharing of music. But, I maintain that for ANYONE music has it's place outside a concert hall (although, admittedly, not everywhere, or always) :
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My smoking music is often the soundtracks to TV or Movies that I'm watching. If I'm reading, I'm not listening--my head just adds sound effects and music to the book. If I'm doing work, then it's probably, jazz, blues, soca, or calypso (the musics I generally work on), unless I'm doing very business sided work, in which case I put on some Blink 182 or Angels and Airwaves. These are things my brain can turn aside, not focus on or auto analyze, and I can focus on the tasks at hand. Driving is a mix of any of the above, with classic rock, latin, celtic, or anything else someone suggests to me. Every once in a while I put on some classical piano or orchestra stuff. It's not for me. And I KNOW, this is a short coming in my appreciation for music (I've had almost every professor ever tell me so) but I'm just bored with it. Melodies that I've heard hundreds and the worlds heard countless times, forms that fit a perfect mold, changes that are generally uninteresting. I try to like it, but it bores me. I'd rather spend my time noticing the classical/romantic quotes in modern music (they're everywhere!).