"My gift is my song, and this one's for you." -Elton John
That is just one of the thousands of lyrics that are drilled into my head. I think it's funny when people ask me a question I should remember from school and I stand there with a blank look on my face, yet if they asked me for a lyric of a song I hadn't heard for a long time I would be able to without skipping a beat.
That is how serious I take my music (not that I don't take education serious, I just knew music was the career I wanted). I have the type of memory where I can listen to a song once and know 95% of the words without a doubt. However, studying for a test was the worst thing in the world to me because instead of studying I would sit there and hum a song to myself instead and eventually distract myself. This became a curse in disguise rather than a blessing.
Music has always been important to me from a young age. I learned to love most of the "Greats" from past times, many genres, musicals, and eventually got my own taste of music which only made everything expand even more. I grew up in a home where my Mom taught us the joys of musicals, and my dad was a DJ which, inevitably, meant we were always around many types of music because not every gig was the same. Not to mention, I had my parents, brother, and sisters all with their own tastes in music, which didn't help me when I tried to find my own. Now, my music taste is a wide variety, and I'm completely okay with that.
Some days I am in the mood for some older country music mixed with some newer, but not much. Other days, I am in the mood for just pop/EDM music, and finally I have days where I want to listen to the Alternative genre of music. If I had every artist downloaded to my phone (I have tried, but there isn't a single SD card I have come across that is big enough), you would see what I mean. I would have artists like Blake Shelton, Reba, Brooks & Dunn, George Straight, Garth Brooks, and the Dixie Chicks to The Chainsmokers, Steve Aoki, One Direction, Taylor Swift, Ellie Goulding, Ed Sheeran, Robbie Williams and finally bands like Evanescence, Medina Lake, Boys Like Girls, Hawthorne Heights, and Escape the Fate. It all depends on how I am feeling.
All of the types of music have a different emotion tied to them. If I am feeling down, I listen to the latter options, and on good days I am normally listening to Pop, specifically One Direction and The Chainsmokers. Country comes in on days that I am feeling nostalgic of anything. It makes me sit and think, and its the best music to do that with in my opinion. I have had many life epiphanies while listening to some Blake or Carrie Underwood (especially her).
Music is also one thing that is always there for you. It has and always will be here. It's not something that can just go away; to go away would mean we would lose our creativity, our voices, and ourselves. There is music in more than just the songs we hear on the radio. It's in nature, it's in our heads, it's when you are sitting somewhere tapping your fingers or feet to a beat even if you don't realize it.
Music brings people together. Have you ever gone to a place that had music playing, and you end up talking to someone about the music and you talk forever because you are lost in your own world with this person? Would that have happened if you didn't have music to talk about? Or the time you were at a concert and ended up making a best friend while you were there; once again, this is something that could have never happened. What has happened to you while music was involved and maybe you haven't even thought of it?
You often hear people say, "a life without living isn't worth living", and I agree with that. I, however, change it for me personally. My quote is: "a life without music isn't worth living" because without music this world would be so plain, and a plain world is not a world I hope to ever be a part of.
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."- Plato
