Exactly HOW MUCH do you love music?

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.

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?

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.... 

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.