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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
Sometimes I find myself saying that because there is a lot I am into and I guess I say it in a conversation for expediency, but I know I am not into everything. I don't think it is necessary to know everything. I find it a little impossible. When it comes to listening to music I split my time, sometimes I listen to bands I already know, and sometimes I go hunting for a new favorite. I keep in a word doc a list of bands I discover on YouTube which is bar none my favorite site to find new music. So from time to time I look back at that list and I realize how much I would like to go through each those bands and music artist and listen their albums but I don't have time. My goal isn't to hear everything or know everything. It is to discover music that is meaningful to me.
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Well, part of it with me is that the one thing I do hate is a lack of variety. I definitely couldn't listen to the same songs or albums daily, weekly, etc.--which is one of the big reasons I stopped listening to commercial music radio by the mid 80s--the playlists got way too narrow for my tastes. I don't even like hearing the same artists daily or weekly etc., and I don't like hearing too much from the same genre at a time, either. I can hear the same genres a bit every day, but only as long as I'm hearing a bunch of other genres, too.
I'm so much like that that it's steered my career as a musician. I love the Rolling Stones, but if I had to be in a band like the Rolling Stones and play "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" over and over for 50 years I'd want to shoot myself. So I've concentrated on studio work, journeyman/gun-for-hire type gigs, etc., and I've played a $h|tload of different music over the years, with frequent changes.