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I'm high on coffee. Thus the wordiness and defensiveness.
On the whole, I think that this idea of getting tired of the way an instrument sounds is really kind of weird and a product of reproduction. And really, it's just a surface thing. We're so obsessed with new, new, new, but it's really a shallow surface style thing that is of little consequence in the long run.
About classical music, I know that it doesn't speak to a lot of people on a deep level. The only reason it does for me is because that's where I started. It was the first music I listened to and played. I didn't get into anything else until I was about 19 and in college. So most things I say about rock music are bullshit. I've never been in a band or anything and I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time. This is how I got into classical: playing the music and listening to it during my formative years, starting when I was 12. Whatever people get into when they're young is going to stick with them forever and mean the most to them. I come from a southern lower-middle class background, and my parents like the Allman Brothers, so, anomaly. Anybody wants to really get into classical music should play it, play it, play it, play it.
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