Yesterday afternoon I was at The Hard Rock hotel for a little while picking up some tickets that I had won Via a Facebook contest and while I was waiting there I noticed just how many people rely on music to get them through the day and perhaps what they call life. Just standing there for 20 minutes I heard how the band that was playing had changed someones life for the better and if it was not for the band this individual would not be where they are today…. I began to question, umm and where is that?, in line spending $60 on a ticket to this concert that does not start for another 2 hours at which you will probably not come any closer to the band then 5 feet and most likely they will not even realize you were there or that part of the cash they are blowing at the bar after the show even came from you. Or is there more to it than that?
I know for me I have music playing while doing most everything and it is not like back in high school when we would ask each other, ” Hey Bro, are you a rocker or a rapper?” I look back at that now and say what the hell was that about, you are neither lil weezy or Travis Barker, you are a high school kid that happens to like music and wants to associate with the cool group. But to me as we get older we start to evolve into a much more self driven and less influenced person that eventually starts to stand on our own likes and dislikes regardless of others opinions.
Music is now a huge motivator or mood catalyst for me, when drawing depending on what I am going to be drawing this will influence my music choice. Right now as I am writing this I am actually listening to Antoine Dufour.. Would you ever catch me listening to this in my car with the windows down blasting it like a concert in the park ” NOPE” but it fits for what I am doing now. With that in mind I can think back to yesterday’s events and say, Hmmm maybe that band is the cause for this person standing here today. You never know what someones influence is whether it be a person, a band, a drink, or an object. Music is ridiculously important; just pay attention today while you are out and about and think about the music that you hear and what it would be like if it was absent. It is everywhere, your car, the grocery store, the gas station, the doctor’s office even restaurants.
I guess what I am saying to myself is you can’t hastily say to someone, why do you listen to that crap or, ” Come on, that song can’t mean that much to you.” You never know how much the Zac Brown band’s ” a little bit of chicken fried” may mean to someone. What are your thoughts on music and its effects on your daily life? I am now convinced I don’t know what I would do without music.
Raymond
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