Without music, is life worth living?

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Exactly.

I also notice that music sometimes touches on emotions that are quite ineffable. Music with very intense moods and ambiance can be that way. Real life emotion can seem rather dull and flat in comparison to the potential richness of music.

Well I would not die due to lack of music, but I would most likely kill myself if music stopped existing...if I have nothing to help me feel alive there really is no point.

I am a musician.

I wouldn't die as a direct result of music not existing, but it's the number one thing that makes life worth living for me.

I think that is a very childish, stupid statement. That would be like saying the live of a deaf person is pointless. I do like music, but that is not the most important thing in my life. And my life is more important o me than listening to music.

Ok...just remember music has really helped some people get through some very difficult times in their lives, I do not think there is anything stupid or childish about being honest that if it were not for music there is a very large chance I would not be here. When no one is there to help which is much of the time due to the fact so few people actually understand how I feel......there is music.

If I were deaf my life would be pointless, I cannot stand complete silence........If there are people who can their lives aren't meaningless but for me yeah being deaf would most likely=death.

I don't know where I'd be without my music.

NO. I would not be able to live without music. If music went away or I became deaf, I would probably commit suicide (no offense to the deaf community).

It might be good to ask this question of someone who is deaf and can't hear. You learn to cope, I'd imagine. Having known the joy of music, I'd say it'd be hard to live without it. But someone who has never heard music before may get along just fine in life. The real trouble is when you have to make the transition from hearing to not hearing. That's gotta be really hard.

"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music."
-Sergei Rachmaninoff

I would be very sad if music would disappear from my life. Playing the piano can be such a beautiful way of escaping it all.

Still, I would take deafness over blindness any day.

Ask people who lived under the Taliban (and probably still do)?

Well being born deaf is one thing, but yeah I am quite sure I would have no desire to cope if I went deaf, I am already isolated enough in my own mind I don't need to be even further isolated and probably could not handle it so yeah suicide would be the result. that is one of the few exceptions for the no-suicide rule I try to stick to. Because usually what happens is if I feel that way I listen to music and smoke a bowl if I have any and then I live to see the next day.

Yeah, I couldn't live without music. It's a kind of release for me so without it, I'd probably explode

It's just sensory adaptation. When a person moves from a sugary diet to a vegetarian diet, their taste buds may first object to the blandness and lack of sweetness, but over time, their sense of taste adapts and they no longer find vegetables the icky things they once thought they were. In fact, if they consume something like... candy, it might actually be *too* sweet or it just has a taste that's kind of unappealing (or not nearly as appealing as someone accustomed to it.).

A person without melodious sounds would likewise adapt. If there were not the guitar riffs and drum beats of rock roll, one would find joy in the songs of birds that bards a many waxed poetic about.

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Not to be pedantic, but there's a whole lot more to music than just "melodious sounds".

LOL, and there's a whole lot more to bird songs than chirps.