Will you ever HATE music?

I don't think it's a downer really. It's just a reality, growing up as you said, esp. for those of us who spent a long time in business end of it as performers, working at labels etc. Sometimes I think it's better to be a fan. If a fan gets tired of music, they can just get another interest. When someone in the music business gets tired of music, they need a new *profession*!

Someone I knew than ran an established indie label, and had been a rock journalist said to me once "This music ruined my life!" and I knew what he meant. I think I heard Stevie Nicks say this in an interview once, and I agree--you miss out on the "normal life" things and then you're old.

Then you have to make a transition to "civilian life" and it is NOT easy. I recently made that transition, and now that I'm on the other side of it, I'm starting to be able to listen to music with some enthusiasm again.

Thanks for the OTM kate, I know you've been there. Your band was the last one that I had any enthusiasm for, and unfortunately in the middle of all that, I started to enter my phase of running away from anything related to music business. I'm sorry I didn't get to carry out all the promo ideas I had.

I still don't think it's a downer though, it's just real life. I had a really long conversation about this this with Dee, and I can't recreate it here, but guess in all this blithering what I am saying is whether fan or music worker bee, it's not the end of the world if you lose interest in music for a while--it signals that some kind of change is needed/is happening in your life.

i'll never hate music, just myself for spending more money on it than i can afford

The only time I hated music was when I took 22 mushrooms, blended finely and mixed with grape juice. It rushed into me as the Harmony Rockets (aka Mercury Rev) "Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void" was playing at full blast. It sent me farther over the edge than I ever wanted to go. It was then that I understood that there's nothing cool about the mental problems of Brian Wilson, Syd Barret, Roky Erikson, etc. Of course, this should have been obvious, but I was young and dumb. My friends found me curled up on the back porch of my dead grandmother's house, under a blanket, declaring that music was the work of the devil. They offered to change the music, and I told them to put in Miles Davis's "Kind of Blue", the one with the blue cover. They put in "In A Silent Way" by mistake. Back into the void.....

I eventually got over it, and with the help of CAN, all is well. Have you listened to CAN much? They're good for what ails ya. When I feel stuck with music, I'll usually veer off into a genre that I'm not familiar with, and that will keep things fresh.

Some good advice on here...it definitely seems like a matter of changing your habits in order to combat indifference in general. I mean, music can be as fundamental as life itself just as it can be meaningless, insufferable hipster posturing.

My advice would be to leave the portable music player at home, go to the park on a nice day and just take in the peaceful ambience. Try to get that balance back. And you know, the park's always full of nice people. Works for me.