Music is a permanent part of your life

Is music a permanent part of my life? This is an understatement.

When I listen to music I love, I feel as if I am floating on a cloud. I feel as if the music is inside of me. I feel I am playing with the angels.. I had better stop now or people may think I am touched by madness (which I am!).

To compose something like this one must really have been touched by an angel…

 
This quote pretty much sums up my take on Music.

“If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple.” ― Vera Nazarian

Can not imagine a day without good music.

A song can be like a footnote to your life.
You can remember when you first heard it and how it affected you.
When you hear it later, it calls up your past.
 
I think that the title of one of Stevie Wonder's greatest albums (and one of the best albums ever), Songs in the Key of Life pretty much sums it up for me. I know that I am not alone in that sentiment. Music has been a part of my essence since I was very young and I do enjoy all types. If I had to come up with a soundtrack to my life, the list of songs making up that soundtrack would be huge. Some songs that meant a lot to me when I was younger aren't as relevant to me today but that doesn't make those songs any less important to me.

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Music was in me since I was a little girl and I heard my uncle Freddie playing some of his 78s. My mother recognized that I was musically inclined by the time I was 10; she and my father bought me a piano and started me with lessons. I adapted the saying "I Was Made of Music" a few decades ago. Not even in my wildest dreams did I think I'd release a multi genre album but that's what I did about 5 years after I retired. Besides my former music teacher, who became my BFF, my muse is my instrument..the Yamaha Clavinova. The seemingly endless rhythms its capable of producing inspire me to think melodically and use pretty chords. People tell me my music is soul soothing, relaxing and comforting. They also tell me that they can feel my energy in the music. All of those things are what I intend to convey when I compose.

I have quite a record collection with songs and albums in many genres. I passed that love of music along to my son who often tells me how much he appreciates hearing good music of all types when he was growing up. He started deejaying professionally at age 15. My son also posted his appreciation on Facebook and mentioned it when he was spinning for his radio program. For me, the musical legacy all began when I was 4 years old..at Uncle Freddie's house, listening to these two songs, which remain among my favorites to this day. A couple of decades ago I got to meet Ruth Brown when she did a show in my area. She said she no longer performed Daddy Daddy.


 
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Right Now said:
Music is a permanent part of your life
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When I first saw this thread I thought, no not me. I play no instrument and sing rarely, usually only after too much to drink...

Then I thought about it, and I often have a song in my head, and I do appreciate a lot of recordings. Like many the ones of my youth are engrained in me.

Then I looked it up and apparently music is a part of every known human culture, dating back at least 50,000 years and probably longer. There is even evidence that Neanderthals had music. So yes, I guess it is a permanent part of all of us.

Evolutionary musicology​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_musicology
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Music was in me since I was a little girl and I heard my uncle Freddie playing some of his 78s. My mother recognized that I was musically inclined by the time I was 10; she and my father bought me a piano and started me with lessons. I adapted the saying "I Was Made of Music" a few decades ago. Not even in my wildest dreams did I think I'd release a multi genre album but that's what I did about 5 years after I retired. Besides my former music teacher, who became my BFF, my muse is my instrument..the Yamaha Clavinova. The seemingly endless rhythms its capable of producing inspire me to think melodically and use pretty chords. People tell me my music is soul soothing, relaxing and comforting. They also tell me that they can feel my energy in the music. All of those things were what I intended when I compose.

I have quite a record collection with songs and albums in many genres. I passed that love of music along to my son who often tells me how much he appreciates hearing good music of all types when he was growing up. He started deejaying professionally at age 15. My son also posted his appreciation on Facebook and mentioned it when he was spinning for his radio program. For me, the musical legacy all began when I was 4 years old..at Uncle Freddie's house, listening to these two songs, which remain among my favorites to this day. A couple of decades ago I got to meet Ruth Brown when she did a show in my area. She said she no longer performed Daddy Daddy.


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@OneEyedDiva , what a remarkable testament of your love of music! It reminds me of a song I hear a long time ago,
 
Alligatorob said:
When I first saw this thread I thought, no not me. I play no instrument and sing rarely, usually only after too much to drink...

Then I thought about it, and I often have a song in my head, and I do appreciate a lot of recordings. Like many the ones of my youth are engrained in me.

Then I looked it up and apparently music is a part of every known human culture, dating back at least 50,000 years and probably longer. There is even evidence that Neanderthals had music. So yes, I guess it is a permanent part of all of us.

Evolutionary musicology​

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_musicology
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Are you saying that drink brings out the Neanderthal in you?
Or..... maybe my imagination is in rhythm mode??
 

Joy at the start
Fear in the journey
Joy in the coming home
A part of the heart
Gets lost in the learning
Somewhere along the road
Along the road
Your path may wander
A pilgrim's faith may fail
Absence makes the heart grow stronger
Darkness obscures the trail
Cursing the quest
Courting disaster
Measureless nights forebode
Moments of rest
Glimpses of laughter
Are treasured along the road
Along the road
Your steps may tumble
Your thoughts may start to stray
But through it all a heart held humble
Levels and lights your way
Joy at the start
Fear in the journey
Joy in the coming home
A part of the heart
Gets lost in the learning
Somewhere along the road
Somewhere along the road
Somewhere along the road
 
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