can music be life altering?

"However eagerly I sought salvation,

Bern wrote: Music gave me some hope in life. Before I discovered prog and became a serious music fan, I suffered a lot of stress from my parents as they were always asking me what I was planning to study at university. It was like I had no real interests in life. I was a sad guy. I was just going through college with nothing in mind. Now that I finally found something that really passionates me, I made it my will to continue at school. I'm currently studying History of Arts and I simply adore it. I know it may not be the best way to have a job but I didn't drop-out of school

My situation is similar...but in a way I always knew that I wanted to do something with art. Now I study images & sound (no, now words you DT freaks) design which is the crossover between design and movie director. But I also got "stregh" form music.

Art rules

Music as any art can generate extreme responses, as I can read in this thread.

Personally music is an intrinsic and positive part of my life, from the moment I wake up to the moment I sleep, I listen to music (there are pauses of course), an average of about 8 hours at least, in the car, at home, at the office, at the gym, etc.

I'd say music in a way changed my life and my way of thinking, I started off with Genesis, this stimulated research (in the Encyclopedia Britannica we had at home, no internet at that time) into mythology, history, etc, which derived in Sci-Fi (which I love) later on. Pink Floyd made you think of madness, society, psychological issues (mother, teachers, society, war, presidents, etc.) and so on. Music has stimulated in me a certain way of looking at the world early on, a more varied worldview and as my musical horizons expanded so did your interests in music and in general. Life would certainly have been more boring and uneventful without music, and I'd certainly be more ignorant and stupid than what I am now.

Greetings

Mogens

honestly, i think music has had more negative aspects on my life

One of the changes to me is that now Im a music fan from a specific genre. And now I spend more time listening music, and learn a lot about it.




Music is the Best.


Edited by Viajero Astral - July 12 2006 at 14:43

Music's my life. Having both classical music and this wonderful prog rock as passion is a bliss. Nothing wrong about my life then. 

Most definately. Listening to prog and power metal helped me through a very depressed period a while back.

Teaflax wrote: I have a colleague who doesn't listen to music at all; she considers it all just noise. To me, that's one of the saddest things I have ever heard.

I know what you mean, it was a long time before I came to terms with the fact that there were people who just don't like music at all. Unbelievable but true. They really don't know what they are missing. There must be some kind of switch in their brains which is permanently "off". Weird.
    

Music gave me something to be passionate about, and it also got me intrested in other things related such as literature and philosophy.

There are entire curriculums at many music schools outlining a degree in "Music Therapy". So, I'd say yes.