What song inspired you to learn music?

Classical music was what inspired me to enter the world of composition. And even today, it remains my greatest muse.

 

Reading the OP title, I thought about it.

When I was young, our house didn't have cable TV; just antenna TV... the several channels and UHF channel for National Geographic sorts of things.

The exposure I had to cable TV was in the den of a friend's house.

As an adolescent, I was taken aback by videos; Under The Bridge, Evenflow, Faith No More, and Ugly Kid Joe too, etc. There was emotional relevance to be evaluated, but I couldn't relate it to anything in my life. I was a young Mexican American in the den of my neighborhood friend's parents watching something that was in our house not provided.

I felt a lot of angst about trying to relate my existence to this 'phenomenon'. I didn't understand it though, and tried to make it work by wearing longer hair. Then came boarding school.

I learned to play the guitar from a peer who could play lead and took after his father who was also a guitarist. He was not the son of either of the famous rock star parents I've written about previously. I felt as inspired as I could, and tried to play Come As You Are and Nothing Else Matters, but basically felt less relevant by playing these songs; I didn't feel like I belonged with any truth at all.

Finally, I met a musician at a different school who was working Nightwatch. He had worked as a professional session musician and had performed with famous rock bands when they needed a horn or guitar.

Somewhere along the line I had enough down time to write lyrics. That is what inspired me. I could do it... If I wanted to credit the inspiration to any one band, Pearl Jam made a tremendous impact on the way I understood myself as an emotional being. I used that as a tool to try to belong even though I didn't feel welcome based on what I knew about alternative rock, slam dancing, concerts, and MTV.

I still do not truly belong to a subculture, but I can make believe with the best of them; though I'm far too old for that now.

This is my favorite song by Pearl Jam:

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What instrument do you play.?
When I was young and getting bored at home, my mother always said, "Go and play the piano".

 

I usted to play guitar. But now I have miastenia gravis, so I cannot play anymore. But I like to listen certain plays, like Wagner's, to write.