G: Later, when I was old, I found that panic is youth.

Gao was born in a scholarly family. His grandfather is an academician, his grandmother is a doctor, his uncle is a reformer, his uncle is a scientist, his mother is an educator and his father is Professor Tsinghua. They all hope to turn him into a traditional intellectual according to the traditional model.

1988, Gao 19 years old, was admitted to Tsinghua University Electronic Engineering Department, majoring in radio. He began to think about his future, whether to live a stable life under the cultivation of his family or to pursue the future he wanted.

"Everyone has an acre of land in his heart, and nothing grows except long flowers. It is a pure ideal soil. It is this one percent that makes you different from others. One percent of my place is music. " Many years later, recalling Gao's past, I said this.

After entering Tsinghua University, Gao loves music and wants to make a difference in the music industry. However, his family was very opposed to this, and they were anxious with him and began to "seduce" him: "Stop playing music, there is no prospect. You can study with peace of mind. As long as Tsinghua graduates, we will send you to Berkeley University. President Tian Changlin has a close relationship with our family and ensures that you can finish your Ph.D. "

Gao thought he wouldn't do it. Then am I not more like others? Did it become the man they made? Where is my own uniqueness? Isn't the place where 1% of my heart grows flowers deserted?

He insisted that he would play the piano, sing and write music in the future. So the family offered to bet with him: "If you think your piano handle can support yourself, take a gamble. I searched all over my body, but I didn't have any money. I'll buy you a ticket to Tianjin. If you can rely on your piano and come back alive within a week, you can play your music. If you can't come back, please ask us for help. Then come back and study hard and stop thinking about music. "

Gao was full of blood at that time, and immediately agreed to gamble, penniless and carrying his beloved guitar to Tianjin alone. On the first day in Tianjin, it rained heavily. He took a paper box, found a corner in the street and began to sing. It was raining cats and dogs, and people were in a hurry. No one stopped to listen to him sing.

One of the passers-by recognized his Beijing accent and asked him if he was from Beijing. He nodded, and passers-by said, Beijing brothers are not easy. Here you are. Here's 38 cents. Then someone threw him a dime. After singing all day, I only earned fifty cents.

The next day, he continued to sing in the street and reported directly to people. Local residents ran to the police station and said there was a blind stream in the street. So he was taken to the police station, and the police wanted to confiscate his piano. Qin is his favorite thing, and he resolutely refuses to confiscate it. Finally, he had no choice but to ask the police to call home. This bet, also lost.

Although he lost the bet, Gao was still unwilling to give up his musical dream, so at 1990, he raised some money, collected some equipment, and assembled seven people from universities such as,, and formed a "bronze band".

After the band was formed, it yearned for poetry and distance, and also hoped to earn some money to maintain the band's expenses, so it was proposed that the band perform in Haikou. However, the members of the band all thought it was too dangerous to go to Haikou, and even joked, "What if someone made human pork buns?"

When Gao was only 100 kilograms, he replied, "It's not my turn to make human pork buns. What are you afraid of? I want to reconcile. " Finally, only Lao Lang in the whole band is willing to go to Haikou with him.

In the summer vacation of their sophomore year, they started their career in Haikou. Forced to make a living, they found a karaoke bar to play the piano and sing, earning only ten dollars a day. When singing, there are often triad brothers to harass. Once Gao He had an argument with others, and as a result, the underworld boss found a group of people to chase them.

They clumsily ran in the street with their harps on their backs. After running away, the two went to drink and cry together. Gao asked, "What do you think we are singing?"

After wandering in Haikou, Gao He wants to go back to Beijing, but their travel expenses are not enough, only enough for one person. So Gao was sent back to Beijing, and he moved to Dongshe, the "learning village" of Xiamen University at that time, and lived for half a year, living the life of a wandering singer.

In the early days of wandering to Xiamen University, he could only live in the corner of the stairs on the first floor of the school. After living in the East Society of Xuecun, he made friends who played music. Although a group of people are poor in material resources, they get together to sing and write poems every day, which makes them happy.

Later, in Xiamen University, Gao met his first love and had a romantic time. Food stalls at the school gate, sheds selling peanut soup, monks basking in the sun, mottled shadows of phoenix trees, etc., the architecture, scenery and people of Xiamen University all inspired high creative inspiration. During this period, he wrote the first drafts of musical works such as You at the Same Table, Mike, The Age of White Dress Fluttering, and Youth Without Regret.

After returning to Beijing, Gao continued to compose music, but he didn't know how to realize his dream. At that time, there was no record company in China. Where is the way out for musicians? It is still unknown. 199 1 year saw a wave of college dropouts. Gao thought that being a scientist was not his ideal, so he decided to drop out of Tsinghua.

1992, Zheng Da, the first record company in China, was established. At that time, Sun, the music director, wrote The Moon Represents My Heart. Gao felt that he saw hope, so he left and gave him his "You at the same table". After reading his works, Sun Yi frowned and said to him, "What the hell are you writing here? How come such vulgar things as "half an eraser" are all written in? You can't do this, you can't get out. "

Gao's works were directly rejected on the spot, but he was still unwilling. After returning, he kept asking and finally found that there was another "Earth" record company, which was opened for Liu Zhuohui who wrote songs for Beyond. So he quickly took the job and found Liu Zhuohui. Liu Zhuohui was very excited when she heard the demo of her song. He thought the two songs "You at the same table" and "Love Dust" were great and promised to buy them both.

/kloc-in the summer of 0/993, Tsinghua University graduated with radio major of Grade 88, and was called by Gao's roommate's brother in the upper bunk. After answering the phone, he ran into the toilet, came out and wrote a song "My brother sleeping in my upper bunk". Later, when it was time to have dinner with my classmates, I drank a little too much and sang this song on the spot. A group of classmates were immediately moved to tears. Everyone said to him, "Xiao Song, you must play your music."

1994, 25 years old. Musician Huang Xiaomao found him, and with his consent, Dida Records published a set of campus folk songs. Therefore, Gao officially entered the music circle. Since then, it has been known as the "originator of campus folk songs".

1995 Gao wrote lyrics and composed music. The song "You at the same table" was performed in CCTV Spring Festival Evening and won the first prize of the most popular program.

Since then, campus folk songs led by Gao and Gao have become popular in universities all over the country. Every time he goes out high, he can hear someone playing his songs in the street.

Gao Songxiao, who became famous, went to KFC to eat for a day with Lao Lang. KFC has been playing two songs "You at the same table" and "My brother sleeping on my upper bunk" in a loop all afternoon. He said to the old wolf, "Look, we are finally out."

Later, they went to the Beijing Capital Gymnasium to watch the football match, but they could hardly see a ball, because the whole people in the stands were waiting in line to sign their autographs. On the way back, in the dead of night, Gao said, "One night a few years ago, we cried bitterly. I asked what you were singing. Now, all our efforts have finally paid off, and millions of people in Qian Qian can listen to our music. One percent of the ideal soil in my heart has finally blossomed. "

2065438+In July 2005, Alibaba Group announced the establishment of Ali Music Group, and Gao joined Ali Music as the chairman.

20/kloc-in March of 0/6, Gao released a song "Life is not just in front of us", which was sung by Xu Wei and touched countless people. This song is like a review and summary of his dream pursuit when he was young. This year, he is 47.

This song reads:

From 1990 to 20 16, Gao has been wandering and enjoying the glory of success. Campus folk songs have become classics and distant memories of the years, but Gao still often misses the days when he struggled for his musical ideals when he was young.

After 40 years old, he once said in an interview with Lu Yu about:

Without high panic, he often reminds the younger generation that ideals are really a good thing.

Campus folk songs have become a monument in the 1990s, engraved with a generation of eternal memories of youth. Gao believes that only the present life will be boring, and poetry and ideals are the closest things to the soul. It is better to take advantage of youth, bravely pursue dreams, and let youth have no regrets in love.

Looking back on life, he smiled and said, "Many people can't separate their thoughts from their desires. Ideally, I'll be happy when I think about it. Desire is that it hurts when you think about it. "

In real life, when people are young, most of them have poems and distant places in their hearts, but with the polishing of years, reality is impacting their ideals, making many people depressed. But for life, more ideals and less desires always make people happy.

The old tree vividly said that life is "two bowls of rice in front of you and a Hong Fei in your heart".

Everyone needs to solve the two bowls of rice in front of him, but the one in his heart is poetry and distance.

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