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Originally Posted by Lynnie
I tear up when listening to classical music sometimes, too. There's parts where it sounds just so powerful and beautiful, and it tugs at your emotions. I've compared instrumental music to reading a book, where listening to music with words is to watching a movie. Instrumental music allows you to use your own imagination and create a "story" of sorts, and everyone can come out with something completely different, it's really cool. And sometimes those stories are powerful enough to that person that they literally get emotional. One of the many reasons I love classical music.  |
You just know when you got bit by "great art." I used to be into punk, thrash, and metal bands, and played the same. Then I heard John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme"...and it was all over. My eyes were opened, and my musical molecular structure changed forever. I saw sounds and was hearing colors; here was a man laying his soul out. It was the purest art form I ever heard in my life. It was amazing. Those classical pieces get me too; so does jazz, and my performing music - the blues.
