I just had a discussion with a friend about how we've noticed that music has changed everything about our person. I can see an obvious difference in how I think and sleep and hear sounds and the things that I choose to notice visually. I feel I've become more distant yet more perceptive. I hear things in music I would have never heard a year ago and I experience things differently.
I haven't tried any new drugs in a couple years, so I doubt it's that.. I really just think that I've expanded my musical preferences to include a lot more abstract, conceptual music and it's altered me. I really like it though. Hmm..
If I seem scattered it's because this realization has freaked me out haha.
A resounding 'Yes'! One of the wonderful things about experiencing great music is that the song gives you a glimpse into the writer's world. I get to see what he/she sees. With adept songwriting, thoughts on life, love, war, etc. are experienced in a fresh, new light.
I love music that opens new doors to places i've never been. That's probably one of the reasons I love 'indie music'. With indie music you get clean, untainted art from people, not corporate machines. You get to experience music that hasn't passed through the bowels of some giant label.
Listening to music has made me crazy and worse than I was before. I have so many snippets of song-thought fluttering around in my head distracting me that I'll probably never get to lead a normal life.
Music has changed my life in two ways. One is from experiencing it and the other is by making it. Music is up there with food, water, shelter, &c. I don't know how I would be alive without music.
music has really opened up my thoughts and creativity. When I was 16 I did alright in school but then started making music and getting into the more experimental music now I can't get enough learning and finding about new stuff and reading.
Symbolically speaking, my dormant "right" brain began to have much more activity. it helps to think better and more intelligently when both sides are working together.
music is almost like water. its so necessary, not just for us radical "indie" hipsters, but for even the masses. Music explains unexplainable emotions, changes moods and can change lives.
I do think that music changes how you think. Especially if it's experimental music. If there are odd rhymes and patterns that our brain has to sort though and make sense of it actually works our brain like a rubix cube. I think that's why classical music scientifically makes people smart, it calms them down and forces their brain to think.
I do think there is a lot of music (much of it I love) that is nothing more than aural equivalent of brainless action movies and soap operas, that really makes you dumber.
---------------------------- I'm the operator with my pocket calculator.
Music definetly change my perception of everything. In fact, i think that there is a lesson to learn into each great album i listen to. Some lyrics are sometimes so awesome that i take them really seriously. Music helped me to grow up. Also, some albums have a certain physical therapy power on me. If im calm and think a lot since a couple of years, it's defenetively because of music. On the other hand, maybe that depressive music didn't always made a positive effect on me, but i know it helped me in a certain way. Well if everybody could be open-minded with art in general, people will be probably different...and better.
Originally posted by The Friar: music has really opened up my thoughts and creativity. When I was 16 I did alright in school but then started making music and getting into the more experimental music now I can't get enough learning and finding about new stuff and reading.
I feel music has made me more intelligent but at the same time less studious. In middle school I was a great student but the more I got into music (I've always been into music but it BAM! hit me my freshman year) the more my grades started to slip. Now, I do little more than musically-involved things.. even though I'm in school still. It totally screws me over because it's so hard for me to anything that doesn't involve music.. except for reading and writing. I'll read or write (papers) on almost anything you put in front of me.
This whole lack of motivation with everything mot musical is really screwing me over.
I'm so fucking greatful that I've found a passion for all things music (be it experimental, pop, indie, ect) but it hasn't changed me, I don't think. I've been basically the same person since kindergarten.
Has music changed everything about your life? Have you noticed a difference in the way you think, sleep, hear sounds, and/or see the sights around you?
No. Music has been a great influence and a source of massive joy. But it hasn't changed anything I can think of or brought about differences in senses. Had music had entered later in life then maybe my answer would be different. But music's been a loyal companion for as long as I can remember. Cheers to music!
Has music changed everything about your life? Have you noticed a difference in the way you think, sleep, hear sounds, and/or see the sights around you?
No. Music has been a great influence and a source of massive joy. But it hasn't changed anything I can think of or brought about differences in senses. Had music had entered later in life then maybe my answer would be different. But music's been a loyal companion for as long as I can remember. Cheers to music!
I've grown up surrounded by music and I refer to my life by my various musical stages, so I don't know if it's got anything to do with that.
