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You might be a musician if...

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  • your phone is unplugged for 2 hours or more a day so you can practice. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • you are more worried about breaking a finger then breaking a leg. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • Bach is not just a funny sound you can make in your throut. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • when practicing chromatic scales becomes more fun then bowling. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • you spend more money on books, instrument supplies, private lessons, and classes then rent, food, and bills combined and, you have more then one job to pay for everything. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • you dream about little sharps attacking flats and whole notes falling in love with quarter notes. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • playing The Flight of the Bumblebee is as easy as reciting the alphabet. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • you know that normally The Flight of the Bumblebee is not that easy of a piece. (Jennie *Goober*, twigs4)
  • you listen to PDQ Bach and get all of the jokes. (Benji, bmcphe3302)
  • that irritating song that's been running through your head for two weeks is by Mozart. (oranaiche)
  • that irritating song that's been running through your head for two weeks is from "Wozzeck" by Webern. (oranaiche)
  • your notice you are drumming your fingers on the table to the rhythm of the classical music being played at the restaurant. (teribssn)
  • you walk down the hall singing the bass line to Beethoven's 7th and you wonder why people look at funny. (PodiumMan)
  • you might be a musician if you consider Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" marchable. (ricardo2424)
  • you prefer playing your instrument rather than having sex.
  • you know and can recite all the musician jokes and derivitives in score order! (Harlan Bryan, hchbryan)
  • getting the sniffles is a true catastrophy. (Laura Cole)
  • you walk around conducting the Verdi Requiem, Dvorak Requiem, Bruckner e-minor Mass, Beethoven 7, etc., and wonder why people are looking at you funny. (Laura Cole)
  • you can roughly translate any Latin text, but you've never taken a Latin class. (Trust me--it's true... Laura Cole)
  • your co-workers can tell what you are listening to on your headphones by the way you are typing. (Leah Allan, lma1982)
  • you're willing to shell out $16 for a score to 4'33". (Laura Cole)
  • you know what 4'33" is. (Laura Cole)
  • you know Tchaikovsky's full name AND all its spellings. (Laura Cole)
  • you have played more instruments than the average person can name.
  • you own more in sheet music than in CDs
  • you can define the difference between a sonata and a concerto.
  • you know 101 jokes involving either violas, French horns, or percussionists.
  • you know any jokes about players of any other specific instruments.
  • you took more semesters of foreign languages, that you hardly ever use, than english.
  • you have expelled more hot air than your average politician.
  • you actually cheered on the marching band in high school.
  • you have ever played anything by Bela Bartok.
  • you had carpal tunnel before computers became popular, or have injured yourself more times sitting down than standing up.