It's the only thing I'm really attuned with. I'm useless without music even 20 years later.

It helps me get by, helps me tune out all of the *******s and idiots in my life. Actually, I don't think I could say why I like music, maybe it has to do with a part of my brain being more active.

This song sorta sums it up for me and probably alot of others on here as well:



"Music is my hot, hot sex."

^Love that lyric so much. Fits me especially well since I'm a pretty dorky guy, as well as..lets say...handsomely challenged. :D

I agree loving music often has something to do with wish-fulfillment and people's love of stories, fantasies, and imagination. I think part of this "music as wish-fulfillment" idea shows up when people (mostly teens) have strong infatuations for singers and rock groups. Songs can let you imagine what it is like to be in a different life (the one described in the song). Music can take you out of yourself while also helping you acknowledge aspects of yourself that are there but that you think others...sometimes even yourself...may not see. A song can be very personal, much like a backrub...after all, when you hear a song, it is as if that person is singing/playing the music just for you (and sometimes singers/musicians really do intend their songs to be for the audience members...a way to reach out to them).

"Handsomely challenged"...aww, that sounds so sweet and sad, Dieselboy! Your self-description makes me want to find/create some cool song that sincerely lauds the charms of anyone who feels that way.

So true!

For me, music is there mostly for exploratory purposes. Instead of bleating on about how interesting the concept of a song is, or how the seer amount of them out there could fill up the earth's oceans, I think I'll just simply state that music does something different each time around and there's a lot of it.

Because it's the only hobby in the world you can be geeky about and yet be cool at the same time.

Pub quizzes excluded.
Those things just get you hated.

Music makes me feel things, when most other things in the world fail to.

For me music can conjure up a whole range of feelings.....good and bad.

For the kicks!
 

Music makes booze taste better!