I had a lot of advantages as a child looking back now. I wasn't financially rich but I always had a bicycle and the freedom to ride for miles and miles if I wanted to. It was safer then even though if you went a few blocks away you might get beat up if you couldn't outride who ever came after you in that area. Or they might set their dog loose and then the dog might pull you off your bike unless you kicked the dog under the jaw to keep him from pulling you off your bike at high speed.
But, starting with my 5 years older cousin taking piano lessons and then learning the violyn too both of us became musicians. He wasn't as much into singing as I was because my mother was a coloratura Soprano and always blew everyone away in church because she was such an amazing singer. She used to sing along with the record playing "Be my Love" with mario Lanza who I think was an opera singer or something. I used to cry my mother's singing was so beautiful when I was 2 to 3 years of age.
After I learned piano from my piano teacher (my cousin's teacher too) my mother often would sing along with me popular songs of that era. I also played the "Theme from the Apartment" with Jack Lemon and Shirley MacLane too and many other popular songs of the era. By the time I was 12 I could sight read any popular tune but kept learning more and more advanced classical songs which are much more difficult than popular tunes. I played the violin too in school from age 9 to age 14 but I was never really that good at the violin and gave it up at age 14 but kept playing the piano and added the Organ and pipe organ and keyboards. I could have been a professional musician but I always thought of music as a sacred thing and didn't want to play around people smoking and drinking so I chose not to become a professional musician because of this.
But, singing and playing one or more musical instruments: I can play piano, organ, keyboards, flute, guitar and some violin still and often can pick up other musical instruments in a few minutes because of my experience of music in many forms all my life still.
So, music is a good thing to do if it works for you. I think you have to be sort of free in relation to music or it can also be a prison with the wrong teacher. music needs to come from your heart and not just your mind or it can destroy you as a person.
So, if you have enough freedom in your music it can save your life like it did me. It saved me as a teenager when I would come home angry from school because of one jerk or another and after playing music for 1/2 hour I no longer felt I had to go off someone anymore. So, music saved my life and other people's lives as well while I was growing up. This is why I see music as a sacred thing that saves lives including my own and others.
By God's Grace
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