Why do we have music?

Music is something we can't live without, to my opinion. Every person has emotions, which they express most of the time. A way to express your emotions is to write them down. Which can be made to lyrics for a song. Because, if you listen to the lyrics of songs, almost all the songs are about feelings and emotions.

Playing instruments is also a way of expressing your feelings, if you are very mad, you might play a song which is very busy and up-tempo. But when you're down, you might play a very slow song. Whilst playing an instrument you forget everything, it's you and you're music. For me that's a feeling that makes you happy.

But noy only playing and making lyrics is part of expressing your emotions. Listening is also a expressing your emotions. When you are very sad you'll probably listen to very slow songs and listen to the lyrics and kind of think about whether the lyrics match your feeling.

I think music is very important because it makes you feel happy or helps you when you're sad. But also you can express you're emotions by playing or listening to music.

My Music

When I was young, I started playing music. It seemed cool to me to play a music instrument. I chose the piano, because I found it the most beautiful instrument at that time. I was six years old when I had my first piano lesson. I was immediatly fascinated by playing the piano. But after 5 years of playing I had enough of the piano, so I quit. By playing the piano, I learned how to read notes. That was something I wanted to achieve by playing the piano.

Music is something I love to listen to. When I'm at home I immediatly turn on the radio, when I turn on my computer, I first start up iTunes and I wake up the first thing I do is put on my iPod! I mostly listen to music I just put on my iPod, so it differs what kind of music I listen to. I listen to R&B, HipHop, House but also music that is very calm, mostly ballads. For when I go to sleep for example, I listen to the Beatles and to the slow songs of Michael Jackson.

Experiences I have had with music are not many. When I played piano I had to perform twice a year for a audience of about 100 people. And further I have joined 80DB once! That was a great experience. Mila Werner, Renée van Eck, Julia de Bruijn and I sang accidentaly in love from the Counting Crows.

So far this was it!

Christine