can music be life altering?

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

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

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

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

"However eagerly I sought salvation,

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

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.

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.

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...

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