Music: Music Saves

"There's music good music. Then there's music that reaches into your soul and calls you to action and makes you want to scream the lyrics from a rooftop and run around in circles and kiss people and spread kindness to the world and gives you this huge burst of energy and just makes you want to become a cool person ya feel" -teenvolcanoes (tumblr)

Some people think music is superficial. I do not agree. That's put mildly. 

I think music is one of the greatest inventions of all time.

You can look around and see all the people with headphones in, not talking, and I've always thought it's kind of sad. Like we're losing something. And we are. But today it occurred to me that all those people are being saved. Saved from boredom, or sadness or insanity, and it's their music that does that for them. Just saving them. And I thought that was something special.

And it doesn't really matter what musician is singing to us, but that musician is making a memory with us. And there's a connection in that, that you feel, but the artist doesn't. That's why we love musicians so much - because every song that they create has a little bit of themselves in it, and you carry that bit around, making memories with that song. In your own way you've made memories with that part of the artist. And that makes you feel connected, like we've got something in common.

So I've made memories with 5 Seconds of Summer and Ed Sheeran, and Ball Park Music and Thelma Plum, Coldplay and The Fray and Arctic Monkeys. They've done so many things with me, and those songs are more than what the artist made, more than the part of themselves that the artist put into that song. It's got a little bit of me in it to. And so it's more than both of us. All contained in 3 minutes. 

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