Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space
between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
-Maya Angelou
I try to imagine life without music sometimes, but I can't do it. I don't know why or how, but all my thinking seems to made stronger with music. I can concentrate better when I'm listening to music, and the quality of my work--whatever I'm working on--is higher. I don't absolutely need music, of course, and silence is also one of my best friends, but music certainly is a wonderful element of my life. And good music is simply good music to me, and I can listen to the same songs over and over again, as long as they're good (to my mind, anyway). I tend to think in melody, and the songs that have the strongest effect on me are the songs that have the strongest melodies. I think that's why jazz isn't a musical genre that I enjoy, because the lack of strong melodies is almost a trademark of jazz. My life is richer because of the music that I listen to, and while I would be just fine without it, everything certainly is fuller and more enjoyable with it. Music is a wonderful element of my life, and I'm very grateful that it's here with me in so many ways!
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