Music is...

“Music is what tells us that the human race is greater than we realize.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte


Whether you are a musician or not, everybody has been touched by music at least once in their life. At the beginning of life, our mothers would sing to us a sweet lullaby to put us to sleep. Mother didn't have to have the perfect voice, she was angelic no matter how great or terrible she really was at singing. As we grow and begin school, our teachers teach us songs to learn the new essential criteria, for example the alphabet song, that will stick with us for the rest of our life. Music is in the air and it's inevitable to learn the catchy jingle your favorite fast food joint uses in it's commercials. The commercials you listen to on your way to and from school because the radio is on to distract from the dreadful drive. Time flies and suddenly your in the awkward stage of adolescence. You just broke up with your significant other and your only escape is that ugly cry you must have to Beyoncé's Irreplaceable or Fergie's Big Girls Don't Cry. Your standing there crying your eyes out, staring in the mirror. Thinking of your self-worth, attractiveness, every time you did some thing wrong. You know you shouldn't play Mariah Carey's We Belong Together because that will just kill you. You like the pain. You must have the pain to feel the relief. Years pass and you gain experience and, hopefully, maturity. Your finally an adult. You have your own choices. There is no longer a reason to follow your classmates tastes. Suddenly your discovering new music. You feel the thrills and emotion of someone like Bon Iver. All of a sudden your discovering sounds from the past you didn't even know existed like Hall and Oates or Etta James. Your discovering the new dance hits and soon become the best DJ at the college parties you go to because that one hottie is best friends with the host. Life continues and your dancing your first song as a married couple with the hottie from the party. John Legend is belting love and emotions over the speakers with his song All of Me. Add some more experience and now you find yourself singing along to Stevie Wonder's Isn't She Lovely as you slow dance with your six month baby.
Music is life. It is around whether we want it or not. There is a song for every single moment of life. Open mindedness will open up doors to whole new experiences, in a musical sense and when applied to life itself. Music is art. Music is emotion. Music is human.

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