How different of a person would you be without music?

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 03-21-2011, 04:56 AM

In all seriousness, I'd be dead. Music got me through some dark times. Without it I wouldn't of made it through. It's what keeps me alive and passionate today. Even if I can only fantasize about being a singer it's still enough to keep me ticking.

Ska Lagos Jew Sun Ra · 03-21-2011, 08:11 AM

videogames would be my life... then again, if they didn't have music...

Suicide.

crukster · 03-21-2011, 07:30 PM

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Suicide.

Without prog I can say Amen to that, would have offed myself years ago

Raust · 03-26-2011, 06:48 PM

I've used music as an escape. A way to celebrate life and to mourn life. I use it to not feel alone when depressed. It rules my life I don't think I'd be the same at all. I got through some pretty dark times in my life and sometimes all I had was a cd to help me forget. Who know's what I would've turned to to forget all my worries. I find that some things work, but it's only temporary. As long as you have ears music sticks and that's what I love. I'd probably be psychotic in a straight jacket or a manic depressent popping pills to feel numb if I never listened to music.

Buzzov*en · 03-26-2011, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Raust

I've used music as an escape. A way to celebrate life and to mourn life. I use it to not feel alone when depressed. It rules my life I don't think I'd be the same at all. I got through some pretty dark times in my life and sometimes all I had was a cd to help me forget. Who know's what I would've turned to to forget all my worries. I find that some things work, but it's only temporary. As long as you have ears music sticks and that's what I love. I'd probably be psychotic in a straight jacket or a manic depressent popping pills to feel numb if I never listened to music.

Same here except for the probably be a psychotic part.

VEGANGELICA · 03-27-2011, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Raust

I've used music as an escape. A way to celebrate life and to mourn life. I use it to not feel alone when depressed.

I agree with this...but if music disappeared and I neither listened nor played I'd probably just be a little more bored until I diverted my energies elsewhere...like back to studio arts!

I don't think that my life would be that bad or change much without music, since I feel many alternatives probably exist for gaining some of what music can offer, such as a means of escape, celebrating life, mourning life, and feeling less alone in our a l o n e n e s s.

I'd still be left with the written word, so I'd be okay. I might swim more often, though, to make up for a lack of music. There's something about swimming that has always struck me as very musical, which is interesting since it is so silent and otherworldly under the water. Maybe the similarity is that swimming fills up the sense of touch in much the same way as music fills up the sense of hearing.

music_phantom13 · 03-28-2011, 09:00 PM

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Originally Posted by VEGANGELICA

I'd still be left with the written word, so I'd be okay. I might swim more often, though, to make up for a lack of music. There's something about swimming that has always struck me as very musical, which is interesting since it is so silent and otherworldly under the water. Maybe the similarity is that swimming fills up the sense of touch in much the same way as music fills up the sense of hearing.

Perfect statement that.

~~Sansa Stark~~ · 03-21-2011, 08:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

In all seriousness, I'd be dead. Music got me through some dark times. Without it I wouldn't of made it through. It's what keeps me alive and passionate today. Even if I can only fantasize about being a singer it's still enough to keep me ticking.

This, except the singer part. I'm too shy to sing in public.
For the most part, I don't think I'd be as well developed as a person if I hadn't got into punk. It taught me it was okay to be weird,and to take pride in my weirdness.

music_phantom13 · 03-23-2011, 10:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Vanilla

In all seriousness, I'd be dead. Music got me through some dark times. Without it I wouldn't of made it through. It's what keeps me alive and passionate today.

This without doubt. If I didn't have my interest in music I wouldn't have had an interest in anything to pull me out when I went through a really tough time and would have followed in friends footsteps, to be sure. Music definitely saved me time and again, and is huge when I'm feeling down or nostalgic. I can't say what I'd be like without a love for music other than that, because I really don't know and don't care to.

IWP · 03-23-2011, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by music_phantom13

This without doubt. If I didn't have my interest in music I wouldn't have had an interest in anything to pull me out when I went through a really tough time and would have followed in friends footsteps, to be sure. Music definitely saved me time and again, and is huge when I'm feeling down or nostalgic. I can't say what I'd be like without a love for music other than that, because I really don't know and don't care to.

^ This.

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Raust Music Addict Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1,411	I've used music as an escape. A way to celebrate life and to mourn life. I use it to not feel alone when depressed. It rules my life I don't think I'd be the same at all. I got through some pretty dark times in my life and sometimes all I had was a cd to help me forget. Who know's what I would've turned to to forget all my worries. I find that some things work, but it's only temporary. As long as you have ears music sticks and that's what I love. I'd probably be psychotic in a straight jacket or a manic depressent popping pills to feel numb if I never listened to music.