What are your regrets when first beginning your music career?

[AnX]

never join a band

[e@rs]

My regrets are that I didn't started earlier with the music production, not taking piano lessons and not treating the damn room acoustically.

[telecode]

hmm.. i think maybe I should have left the band i was in much earlier than i did. i didn't really think the music or songs were ever that particularly good or music i was particularly into. it was a fun experience and touring and playing club circuit was fun times.

[resynthesis]

I'd like to have carried on with cello.

Do you play cello? If not, start now to not say this again...

I played through school and at the start of university but it just tapered off. I couldn't really afford a decent cello (they'd been supplied at school) so that was the end really. I did play a little a while back; I knew a woman in the music department at the university where I was working and she gave me a couple of lessons but I changed jobs shortly after.

Too old to start again now

[ATS]

I'd start younger, spend less on gear, f**k more date less (girlfriend can really kill your career unless you're already succesful), go to a music school.

When I was younger if you wanted to f**k more you had to date more. I guess times have changed?

[BONES]

I wish I'd kept all my old shit hardware instead of throwing it in the bin. Could have made me a fortune. Beyond that, it's not something I've ever taken seriously enough to have regrets about. I have worked hard on the music and let the rest take care of itself and it's worked out beyond any expectations I had ever had. I'd have been perfectly happy to release an album or two and play a few times a month. The live music scene scuppered any hope of achieving the latter but I would never have expected to still be releasing music in my 60s, especially not music with all the rage and aggression I had in my 30s.

[SneakyBeats]

I'd start younger, spend less on gear, f**k more date less (girlfriend can really kill your career unless you're already succesful), go to a music school.

When I was younger if you wanted to f**k more you had to date more. I guess times have changed?

I meant that f**k more and less time consuming relationship(s).. Not my native language

[vurt]

I'd start younger, spend less on gear, f**k more date less (girlfriend can really kill your career unless you're already succesful), go to a music school.

When I was younger if you wanted to f**k more you had to date more. I guess times have changed?

we didnt have tinder

[Ksamphos]

I'd like to have carried on with cello.

Do you play cello? If not, start now to not say this again...

I played through school and at the start of university(...)

That means you are cellist.

I play some instruments since young, i have been many years without playing and I know for sure we dont forget those things. We can forget a lot of pieces we knew by memory, but not how to play really.
I know that Cello is an instrument with lots of delicate issues and people that play these fretless things usually are very perfectionistic... But forget those things and just get one and play It... Music is about expression, feelings, drama, plots, not only "tone and intonation" , so, have fun with your cello, If its hard, add frets to It, but honestly, by the amount you played It already i dont think you will need It.

[resynthesis]

I'd like to have carried on with cello.

Do you play cello? If not, start now to not say this again...

I played through school and at the start of university(...)

That means you are cellist.

I play some instruments since young, i have been many years without playing and I know for sure we dont forget those things(...)

Nice thoughts but I'll stick with guitar - I barely have time to keep up with that never mind re-acquiring another set of skills after a 30 year hiatus

[Michael L]

I should have mowed lawns to pay for tuning our ancient piano. I would have developed an earlier and better feel for harmony.

[trusampler]

No regrets, your personal journey and individual experience in space and time, is what will make you, You and your own story.

One tip, fear nothing...

[Tricky-Loops]

Honestly, I wanted to become a (German) romancier or famous reporter because I wrote articles for German magazines and newspapers and I wrote short stories and poetry and even made some layout and posters for school magazine and local church but then I saw all these huge staples of cheap books in bookstores and even supermarkets and I gave it up (and because of a speech disorder I had to give up career as reporter).

I was around 30 when I thought I should try it with music again because I played a bit home organ in my childhood and was a few years in the school choir and I cannot live without music and I always wanted to write my own songs.

And here I am again... Persistance is one of the most important character traits...never give up, the more you fail, the more you should try again...and stop bullying, it only makes life worse...

[PatchAdamz]

Is there anything you would have done differently now if you had the chance at starting again? What things would you change?

For me, I would have spent more time learning a synth or hardware than spending big money on tons of instruments, hardware, synths, and presets.

The only thing I regret is making investments in digital recording machines (not DAWs) back in the days of hardware.

Very expensive units that were essentially worthless a few years later.

[mumpcake]

Not really a regret, but I wish I HAD pursued a musical career. I didn't have the guts at the time, so I opted for security. In other words, I listened to mom and dad and did the "right thing".

Same here.