what's music?

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oh there are lots of beautiful explanations here:) to me personally, and i kinda stole the expression as i've seen it elsewhere before, to me music is love is life. music takes me to another world and that's the world i would want to live in. it actually doesn't matter if it's trash metal or hip-hop or folk music, because every music has its merits. i love the feelings running through my body and soul when i'm listening to music. i think those are feelings everyone needs to experience. those are feelings indescribable with words, those can be only described with music. so i won't even try to give an example, simply put on your favourite (or less favourite) music and breath it in as deep as you can. i advise you to close all the doors, cover all windows and lie down on the floor with your eyes closed in the dark. to have no disturbing stuff around you. i have my favourite spot on the floor of my room where i like to be when listening to music.

also, if you're a bit experienced/learned in music theory, you can find a much deeper level of wonderful magic in the music you listen to. there can be chords or rhythms or instruments or backing vocals (backing vocals are the best part of music:D) or effects or structural ideas or lots else that can make you smile or even laugh out loudly (that's the two things i've been constantly doing when i first listened to stadium arcadium. not in the dark, as i was reading the lyrics, but all alone in my room with my headphones on, i was heard laughing through half of the record:) like the guitar bits (i guess) after the first chorus of warlocks. that one i particularly remember).

and if you happen to be playing on the stage. you are playing with others, luckily your friends (i feel blessed to have my chili peppers tribute band in which i play with my best friends who i've known for like 12 years now and they are perhaps closer to me than my own brother. if you've heard about 'chemistry' in a band. that's totally true. you don't need to be a very good player of your instrument. you only need to connect. if you succeed, it is of the least importance that you are actually playing music). and if you happen to have a vibe between you and your bandmates, that gives you (and them also) a feeling of elevation. like you are a foot above ground. and you know that 'anytime there's no ground below you, you're in the sky'. and this feeling takes over the audience as well. and that is the best there is. when you are able to share the loves and pains and everything inside through amplifiers and voltages, through the vibrations everyone feel when your feet touch the ground after a jump, through the mistakes you make because your best friend's just bumped into you as you play, through the sight of the singer kissing your forehead or the drummer counting for a song in french (which only he speaks), all these things combined with the sound of the bridge pickup of a fender stratocaster or/and the creaking of the chain on a kick drum pedal or the three of you singing beautiful harmonies in the quiet bit of your song.. i could continue forever. and when you see all of these reflected on the faces of people you don't even know (or the ones you do), that is the greatest gift life can hold for you. (it is also true for when you are alone with a friend in your room and you start playing the piano and you see your friend lying back with her/his eyes closed, or when you and your friends all bring along your acoustic guitars for new year's eve and the rest of the bunch sits on the ground around you, smiling and listening.)

oh, i almost forgot about singing in a choir:) i sadly didn't take a picture when i was once standing on the top of a stair-like stage in a huge church in wolgast, germany, with 200 guys and girls below me, all of us singing a beautiful gospel. shivering, shivering:) everyone should try that once:) or singing before a mass where a baptism also takes place..:)

i haven't felt any feeling more beautiful than the ones only music can give me, and i don't want to do anything as much as to share these feelings with as many people and for as much of the time as i possibly can.
thank you for reading.