Essay, Research Paper: What Is Music For Me

Why is Music important is to me
Music is the third most important thing to me in life outside of god and my mom. Music keeps me balanced. Every since I was a baby music was played around me. Jazz was always played around me to soothe me. There would be times when I would be really hyper acting like I couldn’t sleep, my mom would put on some jazz and I would be fine. A lot of times I can have a long chore and I say to my self how can I accomplish this, Knowing it will take me forever. So I’ll put on some jazz music and in twenty-five minutes I’m finished.
A lot of times I can have a long tiring day and I want something that will soothe me. And jazz music does it every time. Every time I through on a tape within one minute I forget what I was made about or what’s bothering me and I either fall asleep or I start my next chore and move on to something else I had planned on accomplishing (Carlos P.46).
People ask me “what’s the big deal with me and music”, and I tell them plain and simple. When I listen to music I let the song drown my problem. If the song has a positive message then I don’t have a problem listening to it. I can’t listen to a song that’s talking about killing people especially after someone has just made me mad. Of-course in music there is a lot more than just the song that A listen to I listens to the beat. I will listen to instrumentals, but if there is a guy raping to swing music then that will totally change the way I think of rap. I’m not saying that a person can’t rap to swing music but if you listen to music for fifteen years with a similar beat or rhythm then when you hear it with something else even though it’s still music it just won’t sound right.
The reason I chose rap was because I had this disc Double Up by Mase. The chorus of the song said if you love me I love you if you have me I’ll hate you if you ride for me I ride for you, but if you Fu@k me I’ll Fu@k you(Mase) I truly believe in the golden rule. I also believe in helping others, and I totally believe that in some ways music helps us. For instance, when you’re going throw trials and tribulations you don’t want someone telling that you can’t make it, or some music playing that just rubs your problems in your face. You want some soothing music that will at least bring some balance back into your life. Every one was
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born to be free and music is a style of expression. You can either express the way you feel or and get out of that trap or you can just drown in your problems playing sorry blues. All my life I worked with music and I realize that music is a difficult but beautiful thing that people should take more time to appreciate.
And in life theirs nothing I can relate to more than music. Some doctors and lawyers can’t help me but music can.



Bibliography


Carls,Avery. What music means to me.Vibe.2000
Mase,Sean. The vibes I get from music.Source.1999


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