Why do you love music?

26 Jan 01 - 03:55 PM (#383307)
Subject: Why do you love music?
From: GUEST,Charlie

Seems to be an odd question, I know. But I often have a hard time trying to explain (e.g. to some of my friends , who are rather mainstream listeners) why I'm so fanatic when it comes to music. I keep saying that to me music's like a drug and buying a new CD it's like getting myself "new stuff". Actually I can't come up with one good reason why I love it so much/need it so much/it gives me so much.

Maybe you can find the right words for my vague efforts to explain "it"!

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26 Jan 01 - 03:58 PM (#383310)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: catspaw49

Trying to explain a love of anything to someone else is an exercise in futility.

Spaw

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26 Jan 01 - 04:06 PM (#383315)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Wesley S

As Louis Armstrong said when asked to define jazz - "If you have to ask the question you'll never understand the answer".

I'm addicted I admit it. Getting a new CD IS like getting a fix. But they wear off soon. I'm always thinking about the next CD, instrument, ect.

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26 Jan 01 - 04:09 PM (#383320)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Clinton Hammond

How can you not?!?!?!

;-)

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26 Jan 01 - 04:24 PM (#383332)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)

Perfect response Clinton... Yours, Aye. Dave

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26 Jan 01 - 10:29 PM (#383365)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Jimmy C

Musicians and music lovers do not have a choice, we are born that way. Others are not so lucky.

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26 Jan 01 - 11:06 PM (#383389)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: GUEST

because it sounds so pretty. mg

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26 Jan 01 - 11:20 PM (#383399)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Gypsy

Where else can you accomplish so much without taking up a ton of room, in the arts? There is only so much room for paintings, sculpture, anything that you create. But you always have room in your head for one (or 12 or a gross) more tune.

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26 Jan 01 - 11:22 PM (#383401)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: pict

The purest freedom is to be found in music it is the most effective means of conveying feelings ever devised by humans it satisfies the soul,the physical senses and the intellect simultaneously it is the greatest therapy for bruised feelings and I believe it is an essential human activity every culture in the world has music even the most repressive religions still have some form of music.

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26 Jan 01 - 11:32 PM (#383408)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Matt_R

Because it's there.

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27 Jan 01 - 03:38 AM (#383496)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Extra Stout

Music, particularly folk, is an emotional, intuitive form of expression, and simultaneously conforms to rules of physics like pitch and meter, that appeal to and express our rational or intellectual side. We express solidarity with others by singing their songs. Music is communication that goes from our ears to our hearts without getting hung up in our brains. Talk to me about politics, economics, social reform, you might have to wake me up. Sing me "The Patriot Game" and I'll cry. And understand. Music is a living link to our past. It's timeless art and at the same time, a window opening on the time and place that produced it. When I listen to Mozart, I imagine the audience that heard the music when it was new. Was the woman in the blue silk enjoying the concert, or was she too worried about her son in the army in America to even hear the music? My first grandchild , pardon me, I meant to say MY FIRST GRANDCHILD is due in September, and I can hardly wait to sing old songs to him, or teach her some simple chords, and send to the future a message from the past, that there is hope, we can get through this, and you're not alone. Thats why I love music. And sometimes people will buy you a beer when you're playing.

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27 Jan 01 - 10:31 PM (#384022)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Amos

See the old thread called "Why We Sing" for more on this topic. You can find it here.

Regards, Amos

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28 Jan 01 - 12:59 AM (#384068)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Benjamin

I've been playing and listening to music since I was a kid. I've been a musician for as long as I can remember. A musican has become part of who I am. If somebody can't see that, I don't bother wasting my time explaining it.

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28 Jan 01 - 01:05 AM (#384070)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: GUEST,bflat

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28 Jan 01 - 01:10 AM (#384072)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: GUEST,bflat

Ooops! I think music is the most beautiful expression in the world. It is the best communication between people, intimately and globally.

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28 Jan 01 - 08:11 AM (#384142)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Banjer

I know it is not right to answer a question with a question, but as I see it the best answer would be asking the one with the question: "Why do YOU love what you love?" If they can answer why they love what they love, they may understand our love of music.

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28 Jan 01 - 11:50 PM (#384568)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Art Thieme

Because it's there.

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29 Jan 01 - 10:35 AM (#384777)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: CamiSu

Because it distills so much into a single song. It keeps me sane. It allows me to really explore how and why I'm feeling the way I am.

I am currently living with someone who often DOESN'T like music, and he turned off Bernstein's Chichester Psalms last night. I'm not sure he will grow up to understand. I'm not even sure he can HEAR it. Seems to me to be a sad and poor way to be.

I love to hear my kids sing, and to share their musical tastes. (It's educational, if nothing else) And I love to hear the tweety birds that have taken up residence with my chickens.

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29 Jan 01 - 01:05 PM (#384926)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: hesperis

Because.

Gypsy - yeah, but there's still all the instruments to take up room...

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29 Jan 01 - 04:14 PM (#385080)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Mickey191

I love music because it keeps me sane, it keeps me interested in the life around me,it brings new people into my world, it takes me to the Vienna Wood, Moldau,Venetian Gondolier. It takes me to The Red River Valley and Strawberry Fields. What Joy there is in music. But most of all are the memories of those gone, who shared that first night the Three Tenors sang,or Mom singing a lullaby, or the first dance at gym listening to Slow Boat to China. Someone (Bogart? said don't trust anyone who doesn't drink. I don't trust anyone who doesn't love music. Slainte Maithe Mickey191 N.Y.

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29 Jan 01 - 04:15 PM (#385083)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Little Hawk

Because it moves my emotions, stirs my imagination, opens up my mind, fuels my idealism, and reminds me of my origins.

- LH

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29 Jan 01 - 04:17 PM (#385084)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: mousethief

"Why do you like music?"

"Why do you like sex?"

"Because it feels so good."

"There you go."

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30 Jan 01 - 09:25 AM (#385621)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Seth

There was a jazz musician who recorded a piece in the seventies. I can't remember his name, but I know I will at 4:00 a.m. I believe he died tragically in New York. He said it all : Music is the Healing Force of the Universe.

Seth from China

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30 Jan 01 - 11:02 PM (#386231)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: Seth

4:00 a.m. The musician was Albert Ayler. Protege of Sun Ra, I believe. " Music is the Healing Force of the Universe" is a prayer, a chant, an invocation in the spirit of Sun Ra or John Coltrane near the end of his life, that is to say, it's pretty noisy. I haven't heard it in many years, but Albert wasn't skinny-brickin' anyone on that one.

Seth from China

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31 Jan 01 - 08:28 PM (#387042)
Subject: RE: Why do you love music?
From: ray bucknell

Some of my earliest memories involve music: Tennessee Ernie Ford's rendition of "Sixteen Tons" when I was two or three; picking out "This Old Man" on the piano by ear in kindergarten; the kitchen radio playing constantly as life's background noise throughout my childhood. Music has always been there for me. Everyone needs a passion in life: music is mine.

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