Exactly HOW MUCH do you love music?

Music is my life.

Forget relationships... forget friends... forget everything... all I do is play/write/listen to music.

Whether it's in my band... a solo album I'm working on... helping other bands out... watching music dvds... it's all I do.

Prog, metal, jazz, funk, pop, classical... whatever... I love it all (Except all the trance/r'n'b stuff they play on the radio ).

However, one saying I heard somewhere which I really try to remember is... "There is a difference between being serious about music and taking music seriously."

Every band and every listener have total freedom of choice to listen to and do what they like. Ths is why... despite all you Dream Theater haters on here... you VERY RARELY hear me sl*g off another band or a persons musical taste.

Apart from that, I also like wrestling and comics.

Music is a very big part of my life, whether it be listening or creating it. But if I had to choose between music and love, I would have to give up music to true love. Finding a companion and stuff is a major part of my religion, and music couldn't make up for that.

But that doesn't mean I wouldn't miss music- I hate just thinking about no more music.... 

I'd choose to not go deaf likely, I can always get my quick fix of meaningless sex in any bar!

danbo wrote: As a man who has had to make the choice between my beloved CDs and eating, I must admit that I chose sustenance over pleasure. I sold over 200 CDs. I had well over 700 at the time and I measured one against another. What should stay and what should go? Some hard choices. I have rebuilt my collection and purchased some of the same ones again, but I'm in a better place, physically and emotionally.

We all seem to be damaged in some way.Does prog sustain us or cause the damage?

Prog Music was the soundtrack of my youth.I can play CD's and remember who I was dating at that time and whether they liked the music.Well the music's still here but they are just memories......

Jim Garten wrote: Peter wrote: Re life as "one big stupid, senseless question," find the intelligence and sense where you can (why not make some?), and learn to question it less, and LIVE it more. Our youth is full of questions, doubt, and despair -- give it time, my young friend, give it time. You won't make sense of it all, but you'll learn that you don't need to; you'll be too busy living and loving. There's a new flower next to that dog turd. The ugliness makes the beauty all the sweeter Ah - the profound professor proposes personal progression; only in the Prog Forums can a lonely (if absinthe addled) soul find such solace across the oceans. Meanwhile, back on thread - I was watching a TV programme about bailiffs the other night, and they were saying the easiest thing to shift at public auction is CD collections; one sequence showed a very large bailiff counting a chap's CDs in preparation for possible sale in payment of fines. That made me look around at the 750 or so CDs in our collection, and made me wonder how I would feel should the unthinkable happen, and I were to lose them.... Alternatively (and this has been mentioned before), the horror of succumbing to deafness, and never again hearing music - sure, I guess you'd eventually learn to cope as Peter rightly said, but can you imagine the hole left in your life? +++shudders+++

I lived up to the end of the year in an area with a lot of burglary and I was sometimes quiet scared  :what if someone steals my favourite records. But then, when I changed to another flat I couldn't listen to anything for a couple of days and most of the time I was humming in the van and I realized that the the music I love is in my head and will always be there. I have never spent much money on hifi systems and the music I love the best I heard it on some cheap tape recorder and like Joren said I remember every single moment when I heard it for the first time and this is my real treasure.

I hear you man... i find it hard to go a day without listening to music. It helps keep me going, and without id go absolutely crazy... i cant remember the last day i went without listening to any kind of music.

It is probably the most important thing in my life atm. listening, creating, sharing music.

 Wow! Great to see so many responses!

First of all, this thread is NOT a cry for help, although I must admit that my post was a bit melancholic and dramatic.  I was just in the mood for a more serious thread.

Thanks for the kind words, Hugues and Uncle Peter  but I think I'm self-confident enough

And thanks all for your views on this. A very interesting subject...

Nice story, TBWART, about the same things happened to me, only my big discovery was Frank Zappa. And vert nicely put, Haas. And Jim: yeah, the fact that there is apossibility to lose all your CD's in a fire or something has always haunted me... that would be terrible...

Overall, most people think love is more important than music. But most of you forget (I'm glad James doesn't) that the most beautiful thing in life is the PHENOMENON that is...

MARIAH CAREY!  

I Can't Imagine Life Without Music Especially Prog!

 

Wow, a usefull discussion about life on a musicform!

I think love is the most beautifull thing in life. If your loved ones would fall away, and there won't be anyone to fill op the gap, you will not see any point of living anymore.

If there won't be any music, there still will be a lot of things to live for (like love ).

This doesn't take away the fact that music is damn important in my life and (obviously) in yours. Music can touch your feelings and there is always a part of music that can take your feelings out of your soul.

Like some very famous filosophers in the past said "music is the answer to a lott of our life questions".