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theharme	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 6:07 AM Why do you think music is important? On a certain level, it doesn't seem very important, it's just a bunch of noise we like...it doesn't ever DO anything. Or does it? You tell me.
kingo	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 9:24 AM Very good question, deceptively simple. I don't have an answer, even though I've thought about it. During times of depression that question threatens to make me stop making music at all. Music certainly does DO something, though. (Answering the question now even though I said I don't have an answer.) Anyone who's a musician, and anyone who's a real fan of music, has probably had times in their lives when music has helped them get through something. Or maybe this doesn't apply to all musicians/music fans, but I'd wager it applies to a pretty big number of people.
ICF	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 9:50 AM I think music effects almost everyone in this world! Me personally, listening or making music, is a huge part in my life! It is all around us and can make us feel anything the artist intends it to. It can certaintly make me feel happier and more alive if im listening to something happy and upbeat but can also help when we're feeling down and upset... Music can DO anything...
cosmicearthgirl	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 11:12 AM I think music is almost like a universal language. You don't have to understand the words, yet you can convey or receive a feeling, a concept, an idea. It can be a release, a way to share something that's eating you up, or can simply bring a smile to another person's face.
djfacemachine	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 2:56 PM creative outlet for emotions
Thaspian	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 3:23 PM djface nailed it on the artist's perspective. On the listener's perspective.. it's entertaining.
ChadAffe	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 8:13 PM music xpress our feelings too.........
cosmicearthgirl	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 9:14 PM It's more than just entertaining on the listeners part. I have certain types of music that I listen to when I'm angry, when I'm happy, when I'm sad...it helps me to let go of what I'm feeling.
wet1	Date: August 30, 2004 @ 10:48 PM Language communicates thoughts and ideas. The purpose is not to be vague but to detail what ever it is that is to be passed between those communicating. Since prerecorded history, music has been with mankind. From sticks on a hollow log or drum to vocals. It speaks to us on a different level. It speaks on an emotional level. If words are present with the music then it is like frosting on the cake. As was mentioned earlier, it transcends language. Even if the vocals are in a language you don't understand, the music, the rythym still has something for the listener to respond to. Most listening music has something in commom, if it is popular. It has the rythym of the sea, of the heartbeat of the body, or something else very basic to the listener. It tugs at that. Putting feelings into language has always been one of the most difficult concepts for the spoken word to deal with, not so with music. It is the basics of what music speaks of...
RaXDaCapo	Date: September 5, 2004 @ 1:31 PM Agreed
sinai	Date: September 5, 2004 @ 2:01 PM music and its reletives in art and culture define generations
Izekial	Date: September 6, 2004 @ 8:20 PM Music, for me, is an art form. It's also a platform for our emotions or ideas, as everyone has said. Music is growth, discovery, pain, love, murder, hugs and tasty chicken strips.
8111	Date: September 6, 2004 @ 10:46 PM Music gives you (among other things) a place to store thoughts, feelings and memories of events in your life. The first time you really HEAR a song you attach whatever you are feeling or thinking, or doing to that song. You might forget some seemingly unimportant event, then some day when you hear that song again it will act as a catalyst and those things will come back to you. That's one thing music does to me, and I think that's pretty magical.
MCCUBED	Date: September 6, 2004 @ 11:41 PM MUSIC CAN BE SILENCE. TRY TO DISAGREE WITH THAT.
dandellion	Date: September 17, 2004 @ 8:16 PM o, it does.... it does the magick, real magick
koiulpoi	Date: September 17, 2004 @ 9:18 PM Music is just true beauty. Music makes the soul stronger. Music takes us all higher, making us better people. Music doesn't convey words - it conveys pure ideals and emotions, and it's all so subjective and relative. Making music (for me at least) requires me to tap into something that is beyond concious thought and ideas - a well of my sould if you will, and it has dried up on me. I still don't understand it. Once in a while, I will hear a song that truly 'speaks' to me. It stands out, and tugs at me on a strange level. It hurts me, but I keep listening to attempt to feel the reason for the pain. It's like a longing, a lost, something indescribable. That's what music is to me, beautiful and mysterious. It's like a feeling of... a fall day, walking outside in the forest... it's what god is... that's why I write music - to capture that, for only music makes me feel like this, and I think it's very important.

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