SoulPancake

Really well written music, like music by The Soldier Thread, one of my favorite bands ever, makes me want to live life to the fullest. It's the feeling I get when I play "Run Run" or "Cannons" or "Make Believe" really loud in the car with the windows down, like nothing can bring me down. It makes me live a fuller life.

Badly influenced I am lisening to Opeth right now and do you know what he just said:
"The silence of your seclusion
Brings night into all you say"

yeah I don't know what it means either, music is just good to listen to for kicks . I listen to the most depressing stuff and can feel totally happy and when I am depressed I listen to Amy Winehouse because I like her cool jazzy lyrics and soulful voice. Non of my friends listen to the same stuff I do and thats ok I don't think it has changed me at all.

Definitely, I think most popular music sometimes wont be as meaningful and profound as other ones...
But yeah, i think every genre of music has an effect of your life...
IF you let it.

My music serves three purposes; letting me know that I am not alone, enhancing my mood (whatever it may be), and making me think. When I feel like no one else in the world knows what I'm going through, along comes a song that expresses it more beautifully than anything I could say. When I'm thrillingly happy, the right song makes it even better, and when I'm completely depressed, the right song (or wrong song, if you choose to look at it that way) makes it worse. Most importantly, a song can change my entire outlook on something. The line that speaks to me more than most others is "Nothing's gonna change my world", from the wonderful Beatles song Across the Universe.

Take a minute and think about that. Think about the certainty and security of the statement: nothing, no person or thing or event, is going to change my world.

Music speaks to you, and I think, though it may make you think about things, it reflects who you are as a person more than changing you.

I see music as a passage, the past inspires- the present- inspires the future, a connection between beings through auditory channels, yes, and thats all it takes. musicians inspire others the way they, themselves have also been inspired, an endless and beautiful cycle.
personally, music is more dear to me than life itself, being that it presents me with the spiritual guidance to explore all that life has to offer, otherwise, it's just not worth the struggle. I indulge in a vast spectrum of genres from Classical to Metal to Indie Pop. there is not one sound that would refuse to hear, not ONE artist that i would refuse to admire for taking steps towards expressing themselves as well as influencing others in the process.

Music COMPLETELY affects who we are, and how we percieve the world around us. But I would argue that it is only within the moment that this happens. I see it in myself, when I'm listening to my iPod and something really happy and upbeat comes on, i'm INSTANTLY happy. But if i'm rocking out to some sad indie music, i'm totally wallowing in my sorrow. I think that there's nothing wrong with either of these, but it's important to realize that it's just in the moment. It's when they linger that it can be detrimental.

My music choices have influence on my mood, which in turn influences my music choices and this begins the cycle. I know that music and soul are connected, at least for me. I know that I listen to most bands/artists with my ears, yet there are some...well, I always tell friends and family, this band/artist sings to my soul. I don't just listen, I feel it. I know that music can lift me up, make me hyper, drive faster or it can bring me down, make me mellow and leave me crying...I just know that I couldn't live without it.

I would say I'm minimally influenced; my favorite bands all consist of very politically - liberal lyrics, yet I'm a conservative republican and I'm very solid with my beliefs. Although you would think the type of rock I listen to would also affect the way I dress, it doesn't. If it did, I'd more than likely have multi-colored hair along with a few piercings. Yet I dress in soccer shorts and non-fitted t-shirts because it's what I'm comfortable in. I listen to what I want at whatever time it is.

Personally, I am not extremely affected by the music I listen to, other than the fact that my music choice is a small part of my identity, just like it is with everyone else. But sometimes it can affect my mood. It will get me pumped up to exercise or play sports, or sometimes it will make me a little bit sad, but not for long. But unfortunately there is no alternate-me that listen's to different music, so I have nothing to compare myself to. But I think for some people, maybe me also, who knows, it affects how they speak and interact with other people. It would be interesting to see a study on this.

I think music has a great influence on our life, especially in the now. Sometimes when I am just in my room listen to music off of iTunes of something, rather its heavy techno or rap; I feel the song on every level of myself. I hum the tune and sometimes sing to it, even when I don’t know the words. In that moment the song almost has control of me, causing me to dance or sing or laugh, or even feel depressed. Music is powerful; it can move a person, a crowd or even country! Star Strangled Banner. And that’s why we should probably be careful. When I find myself in a bad mood I got to put something edifying to my soul, and then I find happiness. For me, that good, edifying music is Christian music. It’s always in a good mood and makes me think about life and others, getting me focus off of me! But if we are in that bad mood and do otherwise by putting depressing music on, or mad, angry music; it will build up our own angry and make us more depressed. Music has power!