To me, music is the shorthand of emotion. I hear a song and it tells me story deeper than any words can convey.
When I listen to music, I don’t just hear the lyrics and the melody, I don’t just feel the rhythm I listen on a much deeper level, its almost like I enter an alternate mind space were the music is almost like an entity speaking directly to me.
When a song is great, it speaks to your soul and not your mind or your body. It resonates through out your being. It permanently colors your perceptions no matter how subtle.
Great music broadens the mind, it leaves you with that feeling of simultaneous fulfilment and emptiness. It either soothes your soul or agitates it. It challenges your beliefs and reaffirms them.
Great music is incomprehensible and yet makes perfect sense. Great music is subjective and objective. Great music is the great contradiction. It is the expression of the inexpressible.
Great music is a side effect of a deliberate attempt. And perhaps most importantly; great music is not explained only experienced. Have you ever experienced great music?
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March 31st, 2009 at 5:31 PM
I remember the tune and the emotion of a great song long after the words fade – if I ever really heard the words. To me, the human voice is yet another instrument in the orchestration. If it’s used properly, it is fused with the other instruments to form a complete musical piece.
April 1st, 2009 at 3:27 PM
I experience good music – it temporarily allows me to nod my head, get my groove on, jog a little harder, smile or even laugh out loud. Right now, I am enjoying music from Silver Saddah, Isolate Arafada, Chuks, B-Flo, Kefee, Simisola and others who are trying to distinguish themselves as artists.
I experience great music – it gives me goose pimples, it forces me to think harder about the meaning of various issues and I start writing, it makes me smile at my kids, kiss my husband and consider how to fix my people’s problems. I would insert the greats such as Fela, King Sunny Ade, Bob Marley, but even newer artists like Jesse Jagz “Africa” have been inspirational as of late.
There are various categories to music and their impact on me. I appreciate it all good, great and even bad, cos I learn from what they do when it doesn’t work. It is all good.
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April 1st, 2009 at 3:27 PM
hey, thanks for the add to your roll!