Viva La Musica!!

I love music. I mean I really love music. I was trying to quantify my love for it and realized that it is virtually impossible to do so. Why? well because no one hates it. I have never in my entire life met someone who said they hated music. Or said " oh music just isn't my thing man" of even " well I'm not really a music person" My next thought was well if no one hates it there must be something about music that connects us to something else. What is it about music that has it ingrained in our lives to the point where it fits into our hierarchy of basic needs. It has been used by humans going back to the first people in ancient Africa as a means to communicate messages, preserve history and sometimes entertain. We use it today for the exact same thing . I say sometimes entertaining because if you were to calculate as percentages the functions of music in our lives then entertaining would be a fraction amongst remembering, forgetting, teaching, informing, soothing, coercing, inspiring, and other groups that include hybrids of these and many other functions. Music is a master tool. A tool used by humans to fix repair, improve and sometimes just to maintain our lives. We need it to understand life and its complexities. Ive heard people say Musicians are Angels sent down to earn their wings, maybe that's why so many of them live short and tumultuous lives. To be able to bare the gift of creating something so powerful has to burn out ones soul, like a matchstick burns out as soon as its lit but simultaneously creates a fire that can burn for days and facilitates life as it does so.

It's like water. Not just in a "I need it everyday kinda way" but in the sense that if your in a lake or an ocean or a swimming pool and your drowning then someone jumps in and saves your life, what is one of the first things they give you while you're trying to catch your breath? Water! the same fucking thing that almost killed you!! That's how much we love music. That's something more than love its necessity Music is like Water and like water we must preserve it. We must drink the purest forms of it or else we get sick. We must appreciate its different forms and power just like water comes as rain, snow, ice, steam. Most importantly though we must enjoy it.