can music be life altering?

I dunno...if I hadn't heard Bungle in the Jungle on the radio, twice mind you, would I have recently purchased Brain Salad Surgery? I think not. Music has become somewhat important to me, especially as of late. My wallet can atest to that. Ha!

Edited by The Whistler - August 30 2006 at 03:45

going deaf would suck. major.

I listen to music from the moment i wake up in the morning until the cd finishes and im asleep in the evening. Music has changed my life.
I used to hate society, i tried so hard to be cool, but i didn't fit in. i finally gave up. around this time i discovered bands like the mars volta, dream theater, muse, pink floyd. These bands helped me escape from my miserable life into another world. i would sit alone and listen to music. but I soon discovered that i'm not the only one. i'm now in a large group of friends whose hobbies all revolve arond music. Music makes everything ok for me. It calms me down, it can make me happy, it can help me cry.
I would rather be blind than deaf. Life without music would be a miserable one.

Trouserpress wrote: Yes.

Yes

Vibrationbaby wrote: I`ll keep it simple and to the point. If it weren`t for music I could not exist.

so far, you guys have mentioned about feelings you have while listening to music, changes you did regarding to life style, you mentioned bombastic slogans etc...

what i'm trying to say is how can music affect you when you are at work, where, let's face it, we spend most of our day, and it's awful or when you lose someone you love, or you are poor or, god forbid, lose a leg or sth... how's Dark Side Of The Moon will help me then?
    

Edited by toolis - August 29 2006 at 10:37

Empathy wrote: cuncuna wrote: Music killed my dog in front of me... it also killed my neighbours and then went to anihilate another civilization. Music also ruined my puding. I find that to be most life alterating... woulnd't you agree? I assume you were listening to ELP then?

    
I think it was Robert Fripp. He is very bad tempered after all...

On the contrary, when the situation is not that bad, you can make a horrible mistake by listening to, say, a Funeral Doom album and then cutting yourself.

Every time I listen to truly "large" sounding music (for example, the bombastic ending to Dark Side of the Moon, or the powerful section of "I get up, I get down", from Close to the Edge), I feel this great love for humanity. The first time I felt this was listening to finales such as the end of the 1812 Overture, Beethoven's 9th and, oddly enough, the Barber of Seville.

When I hear this great music by great composers, whether they come from the last 300 years or the last 30 years, there is a sense of accomplishment I get, from being a person. This has changed the way I see others and how I live many times.

Music is powerful.

music is a drugs that causes great responses to it, it is life altering