This is an interesting thread. You're question is equivalent to "Why Are We Here?" although on a smaller scale. My passion for music is just something that is ingrained in my DNA, I can't explain why. It's as natural as breathing or needing to eat to survive. My earliest memories as a child involve music. My parents always love to tell the story of how when I was around 3 years old I would insist that they play "American Pie" by Don McClean anytime we got into the car to go anywhere. I didn't understand the concept that in those days you had to depend on the radio station to play the song you wanted to hear. I just remember wanting to hear that song over and over again, and feeling sad when it ended. I have often thought the music is almost like being reminded of something you didn't know you had forgotten. I know that sounds a little mystic, but I don't know how else to state it. Have you ever had the experience of hearing a song for the first time and thinking that the song was just perfect, that it spoke to you in a way that normal communication (words, language) wasn't capable of? I wish it happened more often, but when it does it's a feeling that I don't get from anything else. On the genre-specific side of this, I definitely have those "Eureka" moments more often in certain styles than others, but it can happen with any style of music (well, maybe not polka or rap).

Thanks for taking the time, Darren. I sit once again in my little world with the tunes playin'. The family is nestled in for the evening, it's a wonderful time.

Nice analogy, by the by...

"Have you had the experience of hearing a song for the first time....."

Without a doubt. Recently, "Picture" comes to mind, Kidd Rock and Sheryl Crow. Not so recently, Bobby Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe", Led Zep's "Thank You", Sabbath's "Changes", they are just moving pieces of work. There are too many to list. Some folks see music as nothing more than a title, or some novelty item to get them through the day, or help the trip move a little faster.

I like to think I am a proponent of dissolution into the aforementioned. Just becoming a part of the intricate pieces that make up the whole of something I haven't necessarily created, but am a strong part of, I feel this what the artisans strive for in writing their works. Making folks a part of themselves.

Round and round we go, I still can't understand, never will, how folks just don't feel anything when handed a tastey dish of old blues, or some Vivaldi, reading some Poe, whatever it may be y'know? It's all about what "floats your boat", I guess.

Just curious about ones who are content with watching it go under.

I thank you for your thoughts, hope this made some sorta sense! Lol!

Keep passion in your life, bro' D...

Bob Kent

That's a question with no answer. No psychologist or any book written can explain why we do things. Science could probably come up with a LOGICAL explanation, but human emotion isn't logical, so that can't help. The only person that can answer that question is you, you have to find out for yourself.

Where do I get the passion?? Heck, I donno. All I know is that I like some songs, and others I don't. Some songs move me more than others, because the artist is making a connection through his/her music perhaps?

I'm still searching........Hey that would make a good song title!

Inspiration has just struck me, gotta go. :)


-Deuser