Life lessons that music has taught me: Volume 1

On By somegeektoldme@gmail.comIn Music

I want to talk about life lessons. Why? Life lessons can sometimes be extremely easy to learn, understand and accept; like Salt and Vinegar chips being a superior flavour. That’s easy. However, there are some life lessons that are the opposite; they are difficult to understand or accept. They hurt. An example of this is eating Sour Cream and Chives. Your body will never forgive you.

You can learn life lessons from your family, friends, workmates, sports heroes, and even fictional characters, ranging from books to movies. But, what about music? From Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda, to Bill Haley & His Comets’ Rock Around the Clock, to Psy’s Gangnam Style, music can offer us a plethora of life lessons, disguised as pearls of wisdom, or just some bat-shit crazy advice.

Music can offer life lessons to all parts of our lives, from love, money, careers, health, children, injustice, sports, entertainment, sex, politics, and so much more.

Below are some of my favourite lessons or advice (but not all of them) that I’ve learnt from music, while I’ve been travelling around the Sun. Congratulations to anybody with enough time on their hands, that can name every song that’s on this list.

The life lessons are not arranged in any particular order; just as they have come to me. Well, except the last two, because they are rather obvious. At least to me, anyway. Also, I have tried extremely hard to limit one life lesson per artist or band, just to be fair. But since Some Geek Told Me is not a democracy, rules can sometimes be broken.

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  • Don’t look back in anger.
  • Push the tempo.
  • Life isn’t easy for a boy named Sue.
  • Don’t be told what you want, don’t be told what you need.
  • You got to breath and have some fun.
  • Time is a piece of wax falling on a termite, that’s choking on the splinters.
  • Tell me the gospel according to you.
  • ‘Cause nothing’s the same when you wait for something.
  • The world is a vampire.
  • Go make yourself some friends, or you’ll be lonely.
  • ‘Cause your crystal ball ain’t so crystal clear.
  • Regrets collect like old friends.
  • You can take back your memories, they’re no good to me.
  • With your opinion, which is of no consequence at all.
  • So get out your seat and jump around.
  • Love, love is a verb. Love is a doing word.
  • You got it … what it takes. Go get it … where you want it?
  • Is that all you got?, I’ll take your best shot.
  • Everything’s happy underground.
  • ‘Cause there’s good deeds and there is good intention. They’re as far apart as heaven and hell.
  • What do you do when all your enemies are friends?
  • I don’t care what they say about us anyway, I don’t care about that.
  • Could everyone agree that no one should be left alone?
  • Closing time, every new beginning, comes from some other beginning’s end.
  • People crying for freedom, no one hears the sound.
  • Don’t let the days go by.
  • The death of one is a tragedy, the death of millions is just a statistic.
  • A change would do you good.
  • The cover is not the book.

My wife’s contribution to this list is: Life’s a bitch and then you die.

And now for the two rather obvious life lessons from music. This is the best gambling advice I’ve heard from music:

You got to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em.
Know when to walk away and know when to run.
You never count your money when you’re sittin’ at the table.
There’ll be time enough for countin’ when the dealing’s done.

And this is one of the best life lessons about history, music has ever taught me:

We didn’t start the fire. It was always burning, since the world’s been turning. We didn’t start the fire. No, we didn’t light it, but we tried to fight it.

Do you agree with any of these life lessons from music, or maybe I left your favourite one out? Please let me know. Additionally I named this blog Volume 1, because I will write Volume 2 soon; there’s so much more to mention! Anyway, that’s it for another weekly rant. I’m making my way through Picard: Season 2, so I’ve got some serious Star Trekking to do.

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