Weekly Essay Day

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A friend of mine on LJ was talking about how it's sometimes hard to make more personal opinionated posts without having to worry about offending someone. It seems that she has a bunch of backed up things she wants to talk about but feels she can't. My feeling on that is you should start a club. Whenever you feel alone, or isolated, or

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I am the worst for not knowing the name of artists, yet probably the guiltiest of being affected by music. Maybe one day I should learn the names of those able to make me laugh and cry just by the notes they play

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Music, I think, is just another way to communicate. It's the same kind of thing as reading a poem or a book or listening to someone talk. Either that sinks in and you get it, or you don't. Why do poems move us? Because it can communicate something eloquently and succinctly and deeply that we maybe want to hear

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Why do poems move us?

The thing is, words don't affect me at all. Just the actual music, and it is a very strong effect. The words to a song are just there to sing along with, but it is the music that grabs me. Maybe thats why I never pay attention to the artist... I just don't care... and the poor sap that wrote the actual melody is usually someone else.

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It's about the same here actually...the music itself tends to have more effect on me than lyrics ever do. Heck, half the CDs I own have no lyrics. I dunno.

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Read zanzara's comments. She's smart and has better things to say about it than me. :)