Short Stories · Section 9

More music

I like music, I have always liked music. Even when I was very young, I liked music.

Level: B1 · 34 sentences

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  1. I like music, I have always liked music.
  2. Even when I was very young, I liked music.
  3. I like to listen to it, and to make it.
  4. When I was a little girl, listening to nice music would sometimes make me cry!
  5. That may seem silly, but the music was so pretty that I cried!
  6. As I grew older, I started to take piano lessons.
  7. I was not very good at first, but after a while I got better.
  8. Also, as I grew older, I started to take violin lessons.
  9. I did not sound very good at all at first, but I improved.
  10. When I was a teenager in high school, I made sure I had music classes every year.
  11. Those were the classes I enjoyed most of all.
  12. Everyone loved music, and we had a lot of fun.
  13. I started to take private singing lessons while I was in high school, too.
  14. I also sang in the choir, played in a band and acted in plays in high school.
  15. The plays were all musicals, so I got to sing and dance and enjoy music that way also.
  16. It was so much fun pretending to be other people!
  17. When I finished high school, I went to university to learn how to be a music teacher.
  18. That was a lot of fun because every day I was with other people who loved music as much as I do.
  19. Mostly I played the piano,
  20. but I also learned how to play the drums, a saxophone, a trombone,
  21. a French horn, a clarinet, a flute, which I really was not very good at, and a viola.
  22. I took more singing lessons, too.
  23. We did not have plays to sing and act in, but I sang in the university choir.
  24. Some years, I played the piano for other students who were learning other instruments.
  25. One year, I played duets with another girl who was also there to play piano.
  26. She and I made sure we played fast, funny songs, so we really enjoyed ourselves doing it.
  27. Now, I am a music teacher. I do not have a lot of students,
  28. not as many as I used to have anyway. I still find it very rewarding.
  29. I like to see people who start off not knowing very much, if anything,
  30. and go on to be very good at creating music.
  31. I still love listening to music also.
  32. Music makes me happy when I am sad.
  33. It makes me want to dance or sing when I'm already happy.
  34. Mostly, music just makes me glad that I am me and that music is alive in me.