Music

I’ve always loved listening to music. I knew it was a part of me but I have always had a hard time expressing how I felt until I read one of Ray Charles’s quotes. It stated, “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.” I think all true musicians feel this way. Like Jimi Hendrix or Slash. Whenever I hear a good song I can literally feel the rhythm flow through my veins, the beat thump syncing with my heart. I told my mother this when I was younger and she looked at me as if I told her I flew to Antarctica last night. I thought she would understand since she was my mother and an adult but she didn’t seem to have the musical ear like I did. She couldn’t feel the notes pulsing through her body like I could. My father and my sister understood me. My father knew why I just had to dance whenever a certain song came on and my sister understood when I said I can feel the beat thumping in my heart.

Music has the power to bring nations together in the time of stress like the birth of Rock and Roll in the sixties with Elvis Presley. It can even help someone get over there depression like I dare you to move by Switch foot. Music moves people to do great things. If the song has a fast beat I want to dance if it has a softer melody I want to ponder my life and wonder what can happen.

So saying I love music is an understatement. I live for music. I breathe it in with every cell in my body. It makes me want to be amazing.  I have the up most respect for outstanding musicians because they get to make things that everyone gets to hear and feel.