WHAT IS MUSIC?

'Music can lift your spirits or make you weep,angry,and like no other form of human expression'

Isn't that just the truth..!  When i'm in a really happy mood, i like listening to 'The Levellers'.  I find their music jolly & upbeat, & it enhances my good mood.

If, i'm in a sad mood, i try & avoid certain music.. ie, slushy love ballads.  Sad songs make me weepy.

Very simply:

Music is an expression of emotion in a universal language.

Roger

Im sure there are more opinions on "what is music" and I would like to hear yours please feel free to express your thoughts im sure everyone has a slant on this question,after all chordie is a site for musicians

My wife had a beginning banjo instructional video.  In the beginning the instructor, I can't recall his name, said, "If it sounds good, it is good."  That is our guiding principle in learning songs, playing our guitars, and music in general.

"Nothing compares with the simple pleasure of a bicycle ride."
John F. Kennedy

triplecrank one thing that always will tell the truth when it comes to music its not your mouth it is your ears and "if it sounds good it is good tells it all

Music to me is a form of sounds carried out by the emotions of the soul. Some of us just tend to feed our souls more than others. Just think of what the world would be like without music. I know i could do without some forms of it.

im only bumping this because the number of views was 666 and thats a bad number to stay on,its not that im superstitious but now the number is 667

I agree with Roger's definition. Simple and to the point. The thought of it being a universal language holds very true for me after having experienced playing with people in different countries and backgrounds. You somehow always have an idea of what someone expresses through their instruments even without understanding the words.

Here's one phrase that I always liked :  "Music is food for the Soul". My music teacher from high school used to say that to us at the beginning of every lesson.

Posting again because i remembered another phrase:

"Music is the space between the notes." - Claude Debussy

If music be the food of love, play on.............

Words from a very gifted wordsmith - Willam Shakespere´s Twelfth night written in 1601.

My guess would be that it was written on the banks of the river Avon whilst thinking of his beloved Anne Hathaway, but as this is just a little before my time, I cannot be sure.

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.  ~Ludwig van Beethoven

A painter paints pictures on canvas.  But musicians paint their pictures on silence.  ~Leopold Stokowski