Thread: How important is music to you?

The title says it all.
Me, I listen to music maybe 30 minutes a week on average. I can take it or leave it.

One CLI command says more than a thousand words:

-(robin@hatesquad:3)-(35 files:2.2G@~)-(0 jobs)-(00:54)-
-(~:$)-> du -hs /sound/ /media/sound/
200G /sound/
182G /media/sound/

np: Therapy?'s Diane II - 30 Seconds (Acoustic)

I have music in my head all the time. I own two 60s vintage Ludwig drumsets, Martin dreadnaught and Fender Stratocaster guitars, Squier bass, and a Korg keyboard, among other stuff. I'm mostly a 60s-70s folk-rock oldie, with enough jazz thrown in to make me unemployable as a musician in Tennessee.

I couldn't imagine living without music. Not that I'm one of those people who always need some noise around them, on the contrary, but I couldn't go without Sunday morning church organ, the occasional opera, evening Bach accompanied reading, singing with collegues or playing Beethoven's violin concerto every once in a while - to name just a few things. Music humbles comforts, inspires me. Music makes life a little more bearable. I'd rather never speak a word ever again than having to forgo music.

Even as a little boy I loved music. I appreciate blues, folk, rock, jazz, old time, classical and even some hip hop. I fool with the acoustic guitar too.

"Yes" is not enough of an answer to me. Music is my life. I'm a composer.
I do not take pictures when I travel. Instead I try to remember the sounds and associate them with the images I remember or pictures someone (thankfuly...) took for me. I'd rather have a good recorder than a good camera. I compose all the time. I carry around a journal everywher I go and take notes of musical ideas... I compose all the time, even when I am not sitting at my desk facing empty sheet-music... Music is my life.

Music has always been a part of my life. If I am not making it, I am listening to it.

James.

...And the cheese stands alone.

A world without music would be a poorer place altogether. I'm sure we've all done the "What sense would you rather lose, your sight or your hearing?" game. I have always said I'd rather be blind than deaf, simply because I could not bear the thought of never hearing music again.

Mark -- make sure you stand at room temperature. A good cheese should not be refrigerated before it is served up.

Music is very important to me. I collect CDs and my girlfriend is a professional singer.