Oct 22, 2006 02:36
Have you ever watched a movie and had it, well I don't want to say change your life...but in a sense that is what I mean. Just a movie that when you watched it, something clicked inside you and something made sense?
For me that was Mr. Hollund's Opus. I remember everything about the first time I saw that movie. I had seen commercials for it on tv and thought it would be a great movie to see with my dad. (This was a time period where my dad always went to the movies.) Anyhow, I remember seeing that movie and just knowing that music was always going to be apart of my life.
The ending scene where Mr. Hollund conducts The American Symphony...makes me cry every single time. How amazing. Touching people's lives through music. That's exactly what I want to do. I don't care how, but that's it for me. To this day I cry when Mr. Hollund sings the John Lennon song to his son in sign language, and the end. Like it makes me cry because it's such a beautiful thing that both scenes represent.
So, that's why I love music. And will always spend my last dime on a show or a band. Yes, I do ridiculous things to see certain shows, but that's why. That passion for music makes me go. It's not about prestige, or scene points, or th scene at all. For me, it's always been about the music.
Has something like that ever happened to you?
(my friend said she once took this photograph that she thought was so beautiful that she cried and knew she had to be an artist.)