The Importance of Music In My LIfe

The Importance of Music
By: Grace Aubrey

Music is one of the essential components in our lives. Music gives us entertainment and relaxation when we feel exhausted. The beautiful rhythm of Classical music not only can release our stress, but also can bring us pleasure. After a daylong study, I like to take a break to listen to some Pop melody by myself. Although some of those melodies contain Rock-and-Roll beats, it still can make me feel calm and comfortable. Also, music can heal my tiring soul by soothing it with rhythms. Some people even found that they couldn’t live without music, and I happen to be one of those people. Music is one of the most important and powerful things in my life. My life without melodies and harmonies would be completely empty. Listening to and playing different songs helps me to un-stress, relax, and it can also help to motivate me during frustrating times. I love listening to music while on my regular morning routine, because it helps me to prepare for the coming day. I think it is like the memoir to my life, as it has been there throughout every detail.
When I was younger, I always had a great love for music. I mainly listened to whatever was playing in the background or what my parents were listening to. I didn’t have much of a care for musical compositions. Sometimes a little bit of Pop music was thrown in to the mix here and there, but that’s really all I liked back then. Whether I was in the car, the house, or anywhere else there was sure to be some Newsboys, the Drifters, or Elvis playing in the background. At the time, I didn’t care for that genre of music much, but now that I’m older; I enjoy it because it allows me to reminisce on memories from the younger years of my childhood. Now that I have hit my teenage years, music has become even more powerful in my life and has inhabited my soul deeper and deeper.
I believe music has the ability to convey all sorts of emotion. Whether the emotion is joy and happiness or sadness and despair through the rhythms, harmonies and the lyrics. The song “How to Save a Life” by The Fray is such an emotional and inspiring song. When I hear it, I always come close to tears, especially when I watch the very sad music video. The effect that music can have on our emotions is tremendous, as it can bring people to floods of tears or bursts of laughter.
The fact that music can tell a story, create images, or a personal connection through song is amazing. Music has the ability to transport me back in time just like a time machine. It lets me revisit lost and favorite moments in life. Songs can paint a picture, for example in Classical and Country music a story is being told. The notes in Classical music tell a story without lyrics, which is an immensely powerful thing. I feel that this applies to the saying “music imitates life and life imitates music.”
Recently song writing has wandered its way into my life. I believe there is no better way to express myself than through song. After a bad day, it’s nice to be able to sit down and write about it. It can make all my problems just disappear and float away. Listening to other musical artists that I like gives me inspiration. My music teacher also points me in the right direction and gives me guidance, as I need it. I love to just sit with my guitar or piano and make up random lyrics about past experiences or what I’m going through at the moment.
I started learning how to play the guitar four years ago, and within the past few years I have fallen completely and utterly in love with the instrument. Once I start playing, I find it extremely hard to put the guitar down again. It’s very addictive and can also be distracting sometimes. Playing guitar and piano is one of the few things in my life in which I don’t feel pressurized to do well in. I think this is because I have a great teacher, and she doesn’t push me to do great in the music concerts. She just shows me what to do, and I do the rest.
I have always loved playing on the piano and always will love playing it. I am about an average player. For hours I would sit at the piano playing different well-known songs as making up my own little tunes. I have been playing piano for almost nine years now, and I am starting the violin next year. When I was in kindergarten with my music teacher, Mrs. Alveta Mitchell, I had my first music class. During in the summer, I decided that I would become a music teacher too. Mrs. Mitchell was delighted to share her dream of music with me, and now music is something nice that we can both talk about and bond over.
I believe music effects people in many different ways. To me, music is more than just something to listen to or play, it’s something to feel. Music is extremely important in my life. I think it brings me closer to my friends and family. I also feel that it helps me to get through things. For example, I remember riding the four hundred mile road trip to Chena Hot Springs Resort, and the whole way along the ride we sang and listened to songs. The music was the only thing that kept me calm and patient.
For the rest of my life, I want music to be part of my career. I have always loved music and always will love it. My whole life will always have music in it, because it is a big part of me. Music is immensely powerful and has a huge place in my life, right next to my heart.