Music is what life sounds like. - Eric Olson

OK, it's hard to find a quote about music that doesn't sound trite and hasn't been repeated a million times.  I went with Olson because this is one of the shortest quotes I could find and he had obviously thought about this subject for a long time before he came up with this gem!  I couldn't write this blog without including regular entries about music - what's new and cool, who everyone should listen to at least once, something obscure or something the doesn't work for me.

My favorite kind of music is --------------- anything that is good.  Classic Rock, Metal, Hip Hop, Reggae, Classical, 70's Soft Rock, it barely matters what genre if it's smart and has soul and originality.

Take this song that you might be familiar with: 

Its as good as it gets and so far ahead of its time I don't know how he came up with it - we'll just assume drugs for now, the point is this is a great song no matter what music you like.  Hendrix is just one in a series of geniuses that were able to make music that touches millions of lives.

As a pretty stoic guy, "expressing myself" isn't the first thing on my list of things to do. For me music is an emotion.  Music bring emotion to the room.  It takes you back to how you felt at a specific moment in time.  It uplifts, angers, saddens, delights, invigorates and exhausts.

I leave you with another quote.  As a lawyer, I was surprised and impressed to see several quotes about music by Oliver Wendell Holmes  .  Quite the jurist and apparently "got it" about music.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.  You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes