Lesson#​9 Don’t just press Play. Play!

Music is for playing not just listening to. 

It’s a metaphor. What I mean is that we tend to look at all these amazing people who are living lives that really inspire us. We play their recordings, watch them on YouTube, watch their football match, listen to their performance and we say “Wow”. 

But we forget that music is for playing. Playing around, football or music, or whatever it might be.

As an entrepreneur, I get to play my own music. I get to create my own bandstand. I get to play all the instruments one after, or all at the same time. I’m not very good at it but then again I’m not very good at singing either, and I’m not very good at playing football, and I’m not very good at … but it doesn’t matter because it’s not a question of performance it’s a question of playing.

​So yeah, playing music means playing music not just pressing the Play button.

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