What does music mean to you

[Rollimeo]

How do you define music and what does music mean to you? Life? Friend? Companion? Entertainment? Drug?

Why do you listen to the kind of music that you listen to? What's so special about it and how is it better than the rest?

And finally, who are the people who are spoiling the music industry and why?

[Alex2012]

the music fills the empty space in my life, i can listen all kind of music it depends of the moment.

and who are the people spoiling the music industry

[Elision]

good thread

When I was very young, the man who I considered my father would rhyme back and fourth with me. Just single-syllable stuff, but I remember that game thrilled me. I was about 7 or 8 when I found hiphop, and it was rhyme in music form; I was shocked to say the least. So from that day I've been on an 11 year search for new rhyme patterns and structures within music. Sure, I have some bands/artists from separate genres I listen to here and there, but 90% of my playlist is hardcore lyrical hiphop.

When I hear a new verse from a heavyweight lyricist that raises their current par, my palms get all sweaty and my heart rate doubles, it's crazy. Completely takes hold of me and I'll listen to that single verse for the rest of the night. Like just now when we heard Tech's verse on Ces Cru's 13, I can't stop listening to it. And that's really all music is for me. A never-ending hunt for that rush I get from hearing new cataclysmic rhyme structures and cosmic flows.

[EminemBase]

It's all those things and more.

Like most things, it's very hard to slap a single word or phrased definition on it due to the fact words and concepts are so variable, and potentially vague (and subjective).

Music is... or, can be; entertaining, funny, thrilling, compelling, catchy, stupid, absurd, fun - it can be all these things, and it holds up many bridges.

I think if I had to pick a single word to best describe a feeling I would associate with music, it would be probably be 'escape'. I think music is, for me, and many people, an escape. And that can be an escape in any sense; it can be an escape from depression, or it could be a more positive and conscious escape in to richer or more interesting territory.

I think we often use music to sort of parallel our moods and whatever you happen to be feeling or thinking often dictates what music you choose.

If I had to pick a quality that I most enjoy, overall, that I get from music, it would be intellectual fulfillment. Which is why I'm primarily a hip-hop fan; as I really haven't felt it with any other genre to the same degree, or even close to the same degree, or by the same measures. Hip-hop is full of ideas, provocation, concepts, social commentary - and because it often attempts to be a conversation with the listener, the richest combination of these things often occurs.

[Kill You]

It means a whole lot. I listen to music constantly, I love it. EmBase put it very well.

[Guess_Who]

Music is an important part of my life, literally can change my mood.

I listen mostly rock music, I just like it more, I grew up listening to it.

The people spoiling the music industry....well...I would say a lot of people without talent, who don't even write their own songs but they are there like a prefabricated product. They don't have talent.

and who are the people spoiling the music industry

Illuminati?

[Rollimeo]

Music from Eminem or Cryptic Wisdom feels as if I'm hanging with a friend, but then there is some music I listen to for pure entertainment at parties or while hanging with friends. I agree with Embase when he says that music can be all those things depending on your mood or the atmosphere.

I like music that makes me feel something, it can be an emotional balled by Brother Ali or Eminem or it can be a chill song from Kid Cudi that just makes me feel good listing to it. I was listing to Fast Lane a while ago I love the energy in that track, it just a cool pump track.I like staying in my comfort zone more when I listen to music but when you discover a new artist that you like it feels great.