Maybe you can’t play a musical instrument or confidently sing a note outside of the audience-free venue of your shower or your car. This doesn’t mean music isn’t a driving force in your life. Music is your daily soundtrack, your backdrop, your surging and your resting pulse. It’s a shoulder to cry on, a hand to hold, a fist to raise, a reason to believe, a reason to doubt, and a reason to shout (even if only from the seclusion of your shower or car). Music is an invitation to dance for even the most socially awkward among us. It’s a prompting to ponder mysteries of the universe and mysteries of self. It grants permission to rage or offers a spiritual and emotional respite to just listen and tune out the rest of the world and its overbearing, competing stimuli.
Music is a sanctuary and a stage for all. It can do what governments and nations have failed to accomplish for centuries. It can connect people from all areas of the world with different backgrounds, beliefs, ideas, causes, concerns, and dreams. It’s impermeable to race, color, age, sexual orientation, economic status, and political point of view. Music loves you unconditionally. It doesn’t care about your mood or your relationship status. It will be there for you no matter what your state of mind or situation. It won’t smother you, cling to you, possess you or ask for anything in return. Music doesn’t have ulterior motives or strings attached. It won’t mute you, block you or unfriend you. Music is ubiquitous and on call 24/7 on your medium of choice – vinyl, cassette tape, CD or digital download. It's on television and the radio – terrestrial, satellite or pirate. It can be planned and live on a stage or spontaneous on a street corner or on a subway platform. Music has no boundaries, no borders or walls. It can’t be contained and it can’t be tamed. It’s wild and free, when it screams to the world and when it whispers secrets only to you. When the music is playing, you can leave all your cultural, social, and psychological baggage at the door. You can shed all of your preexisting conditions and preconceptions and let them drop to the dance floor. Shout out any requests. Stay as late as you want. The encores never end, as long as you still have a beat in your heart, a dance in your step, and a fire in your soul. Music is your one true friend from the beginning until the end.
If you doubt the significance of music and the vibrant thread it weaves through the collective soul of the people, you only need to visit Twitter to witness the widespread, shared affection and appreciation for the power and impact of music on the masses. It’s stronger and more pervasive than any organized religion could promise or ever hope to be, because music is inclusive and nonjudgmental. It doesn’t lecture or reprimand. It just plays and lets you do the rest. Music speaks to the masses. Listen to the music and listen to the people at “The People on Music.”
If you’ve tweeted about music, your tweet might be included on “The People on Music” page. Each tweet links to the Twitter account of the author of the tweet as a way of thanking you for being part of this profound, everlasting connection. “The People on Music” page is updated frequently as new music-themed tweets are discovered. Check back often and tell your Twitter friends. If you have music-themed tweets you’d like to share, you can send them via Twitter to @TheTweetOfBob. If they reflect the significance and the unbreakable bond of music in our daily lives, they will be included on the “The People on Music” page.*
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