How Does A Musician Look Like?

Please send me a picture

This is a simple question, or is it? It’s simple enough that you can understand and respond to it: how does a musician look like?

It’s like this: if I show you a picture of a musician, you would be like: ‘Yeah, that’s exactly how a musician looks like.’; or you might say: ‘No ways: a musician doesn’t look like that!’.

I mean, people expect a musician to look a certain way, so if possible, do send me a pic of yours and let me see how you look like. Do you look like a typical musician, or maybe you don’t look like a musician at all? I’m curious to know.

As a writer, I was glad some years back when somebody saw me watching a Philip Roth interview. And the person said I was dressed like Roth. This made me feel proud. I remember telling the person that I wanted to look like a writer.

If what I asked is a simple question, we can ask more complex questions like:

How does a musician think like? This is a very important question. It speaks about your outlook. Your outlook probably determines what kind of music you make, the beats you make or sing over.

We can also ask: How does a musician NOT think like? I mean, as a writer you don’t have to be shortsighted, figuratively I mean; but that don’t mean a shortsighted musician won’t make awesome music.

So, let me end this email and blog by asking that simple question: how does a musician look like?