There are a few reasons, really - the first is probably that I genuinely find music to be beautiful. The works of Beethoven and Chopin and Dvorak, Bach and Rachmaninov...music is capable of moving people, of inspiring stirrings of emotion in their very souls, and that's both an alluring power and a lovely feeling. Studying music is the study of beauty itself; it allows you to explore and unleash your own passion, allowing you to become a more complete person in the process, and yet you can use that passion to reach out to others and instill passion in them as well, should you choose to.
On a more personal note, it's another thing that's always been with me, particularly in my darker hours; it's calming and familiar, and it's something I can do by memory if I don't want to think for a while. I don't need to read music to play most of my repertoire anymore, nor do I need to really concentrate on what I'm doing; muscle memory generally fills everything in for me once I start.
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On a more personal note, it's another thing that's always been with me, particularly in my darker hours; it's calming and familiar, and it's something I can do by memory if I don't want to think for a while. I don't need to read music to play most of my repertoire anymore, nor do I need to really concentrate on what I'm doing; muscle memory generally fills everything in for me once I start.
Does that answer your question?