On a Scale of 1 to 10 How Important Is Music?

Usually 9. Lately 3. It comes and goes in spurts.  

I think I am bummed out about the unreliable nature of my musician friends. Put together a band. Write a bunch of 21 st century urf spy instrumentals that everyone likes playing. Then people start missing practice. Then the band falls apart. 

And I had spent money on pas lights mics.....

You guys are only using two of the notes on the scale?  Borrrrrrrrring!

How does one rate music if not relative to the other aspects of one's life?

Is music more important than your job? 

Is music more important than your family?

Is music more important than keeping your home?

With those (rhetorical) questions asked, making music for me (especially with The CHB) is an 11.987544895764476588 for me while it's happening. But if family is in need etc. then it will take a back seat while I attend to matters at hand.

Very much like Bapu's answer.

A different rating question though: With many thinking that music should be free for the taking (five-finger discount specials, etc.), how valuable is music to much of the general culture?  If one only takes via "free" means, music does not seem to be worth very much.

OTOH, in terms of creativity, music can be extremely valuable, regardless of how the "five-finger discount special crowd" in the culture treat it.

yorolpal


11-ty Jillion.

That's important.

yorolpal


Tis the language we ALL understand inately. 

Zacktly!

bayoubill


Well it depends on how I'm able to attract women playing it this weekend. If I don't get waited on cooked for etc. It'll have to be lowered on my priority list.

Simples.

Hey Bill, have you had the surgery?


You look more like a Billie   

  Music seems to be a lot of things to a lot of people. A tune remembered from past good times gone by will always hold a special place and conjure up good memories.

 The hope of making some new combination of tones that will push the ecstasy button. The idea that we can break new ground gives hope to music IMO.

 As a means of self expression, music is important to a lot of people.

 Strictly from the scientific approach music is a mere collection of frequencies within the threshold of human hearing,arranged in a logical order. Compared to many animals we are severely limited with respect to hearing range. In the total spectrum, sound is such a small piece of the pie.

 I have seen music practically worshiped, used to induce a hypnotic state. It has been credited with giving a kind of transendance.Called the language of the universe by a few. Used like sugar on coffee during the week. As a "fill" to mundane tasks. Given words to convey a message and impact. Both over rated and under rated at the same time IMO.

   Appreciated on a technical level and felt on an emotional level. Makers of it have been praised highly and now machines and computers can help to make it....

 It can push buttons that release endorphins . Can have destructive aspects when coupled with certain ideas and uplifting aspects when coupled with other ideas,can be married into a "package" of ideas conveyed with music and message.

 In answering the question for myself I needed to answer exactly what it really is. It really isn't a means to another place for me.I would go so far as to say it can be mind expanding. I don't see music as transending anything. I see it more as a catalyst for life. A tool to improve life on some level,another way to convey an idea or an emotion,so I can't give it a 10 in my book but I give it a high importance. Life without it would be a lot less fun.

 I think that people who habitually use music in  education or as accomplished musicians who play the same things eventually start to see the simple mechanics behind the music more than the music itself. Similar to when Dorothy seen behind the wizards curtain in the Wizard of Oz. It is simply a set of chords and musical phrases in surprisingly repetitive arrangements even in different songs and in different types of music. Maybe the first time they play a phrase they get goose bumps, but after the 500th time things start to become mundane....so even though I don't consider myself a pro I have lived through a lot of this and have come to see music has the potential to be a  facade.

 Someone has said it has all been written and played before. I'm not sure I agree with that. There are still probably combinations untried,at least not all exactly the same. The different scales offer a lot of potential,but the world today does seem to be full of another pop song,another country tune,another rock song and so forth.

 I know this is probably long...just thinking out loud.

Ugh! we need better forum software.

Here it is about a 6-8 thing...

There is this thing about paying bills I have issues with

There was a time when it was on 10 all the time. It was how I fed myself and my wife. Other than our marriage itself, it was music or music related all day everyday.

Kids came and that slowly changed, til I wasn't performing at all.

It only gets above 6 if I'm in the studio working on something. I might think it's at a 10, but if she knocks on the door, I stop without hesitation. When I was doing it fulltime, that wasn't the case.

Randy

It's a vague question but...

In the big picture it doesn't hit the scale and in fact is a negative as it can
be an expensive hobby.
Should money become an issue I wouldn't be buying Satrianis' latest DVD..and
it wouldn't bother me.

Sure it was a ten when I was ten and going to be a rock god...but I could fly back then.
Where's my cape?

bapu


How does one rate music if not relative to the other aspects of one's life?

Is music more important than your job? 

Is music more important than your family?

Is music more important than keeping your home? 

Yikes!  I guess if you put it that way...  Let's do the tally:  I still have a lot of music gear.  I don't have a job, a family or a home... 

On a scale of A to G# its around about D but it does vary with the blues :)