Music

Tonight I want to write about my love affair with music. I am an amateur pianist...I mean, super amateur. I probably shouldn't even call myself a pianist. But I know a few songs and can play by sight fairly well, so I'm just going to allow myself the liberty of labeling myself a pianist....just cuz, ya know. In any event, I LOVE music. I will listen to almost anything, everything by anyone from anywhere. I could spend hours or days, if my schedule allowed, in a music store sifting through albums upon albums from one artist to the next, losing myself. Music moves me. Music speaks to me. Music soothes, calms, excites, inspires, and motivates me in ways nothing and no one else can. I don't just listen to music to dance; rather, music helps me detox my soul from the muck and grime of thinking, stressing, and worrying all day. Music frees my mind, allowing me to sore, float, rocket above the earth, flying away from the cares and wears of life. I love it all. I love discovering new music, new artists. I'm not prejudiced when it comes to music. If it speaks to me, if it touches me, if it ignites a spark, I'm all for it.

Mostly, these days I've been falling so deeply in love with the instrumentals. Guitar sounds. Piano sounds. Violin. Cello. Drums. Bass guitar. All of it together. Or solo. Beautiful ballads of our times and older times. I download loads and loads of new songs on my iPod and just jam. I'm just getting into Bob Marley. Pink Floyd. Escala. Adele. Shine. I still love the classics. Pachabel. Schubert. Mozart. Gershwin. I'm discovering my rock and roll side. Breaking Benjamin and Three Days Grace are bands I'm finding myself listening to even though a few years ago, I wouldn't have gave them a second listen. I still love Yanni. Nothing will change that. No amount of persecution will sway me. He is still inspirational to me. Even when music isn't playing, I have parts or measures of a song running through my mind.

So for fun, I think I'm going to start collecting songs and make a soundtrack to my life. Eh, bored and should be sleeping but I can't. So here I am rambling again. My point tonight is that I really, truly, positively LOOOOOOOOVVVVEEEE music. Music is breathe to me. Will never live without it in my life.