If music ceased to exist in your...

G-MAN2004

G-MAN2004

G-MAN2004

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...life, what would you do?

I was walking back home tonight after a night out, listening to the solo to Sir Psycho Sexy and wondered what I'd be like if I could never hear such absolute genius guitar playing ever again.

To me, if I suddenly became deaf, I would most likely end my life fairly quickly afterwards. Music is absolutely everything to me. It is the greatest thing in the world and life is nothing without it. I'd rather be blind. I'd rather give up everything.

Would you be able to carry on?
 
There are few things which compare to aural pleasure.

I dunno... I think I find thinks that could compete with visual pleasure.

Losing both sight and sound... I would be in a similar predicament.
 
I think sight would be my biggest issue... but then I'm scared of the dark & the majority of my pleasures (ie, driving) are more dependent upon sight than sound... he says, listening to some of the best music this evening than he has in months.

Losing one or the other, I could cope... losing both... I couldn't.
 
My sister didn't particularly like music (she didn't dislike it either).

Personally it wouldn't bother me greatly although it would change my social dynamic a bit (a circle of my closest friends generally revolves around music, festivals etc). I enjoy music but I don't listen to it every day any more.

Internet would be a bigger loss for me.
 
I only really listen to music as a distraction to pass time while commuting to work. So losing that would not really be a big deal, it's the day to day things that loss of hearing would hurt - talking with friends both in person and on headset in games!
 
Music has always been a big part of my life and took up learning instruments with the piano from 5 years old but I think I would find blindness a much harder sense to lose than hearing. Not that I would want to lose either.

Saying that, I get bouts of tinnitus (always have it, just sometimes are worse than others) and it does make me appreciate my hearing more.

I too find great pleasure in good guitar playing but also vocal and instrumental harmonies as well as interesting arrangements - losing the ability to hear that wouldn't be game over but would hit very hard.
 
Since getting higher end audio equipment it has really brought out my appreciation for music, in fact the first thing I'd buy if I won the lotto wouldn't be a supercar or a mansion, it'd be a perfectly setup audio room with top end speaker equipment and headphones.

That being said I'd rather be deaf than blind.
 
I have really bad tinnitus from years of listening to music too loud. If I lost my hearing and the only thing I could hear from that point on was the tinnitus, I'd do myself in. So I'd rather go blind than lose my hearing.
 
G-MAN2004 said:
...life, what would you do?

I was walking back home tonight after a night out, listening to the solo to Sir Psycho Sexy and wondered what I'd be like if I could never hear such absolute genius guitar playing ever again.

To me, if I suddenly became deaf, I would most likely end my life fairly quickly afterwards. Music is absolutely everything to me. It is the greatest thing in the world and life is nothing without it. I'd rather be blind. I'd rather give up everything.

Would you be able to carry on?
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Are you saying you'd choose to listen to music than never feast your eyes on a woman again? At least with out hearing, you wouldn't have to hear her! :p:p
 
opethdisciple said:
Are you saying you'd choose to listen to music than never feast your eyes on a woman again? At least with out hearing, you wouldn't have to hear her! :p:p
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Definitely. I've been with quite a few girls, and they're great but music is more important to me. It's brought me back from some crappy situations and I owe a lot to it. Girls have usually made things worse. :p

You can always get a different girl whenever you want, and being blind it wouldn't even matter what they looked like, but imagine never being able to hear your favourite album again.
 
Yeah, no problem, could carry on fine without music. I like listening to music and some songs and pieces really move me and I even have a pretty high end audio setup to enjoy music but no music in the world would make me give up everything for it. And like most other people I would rather go deaf than blind.

imagine not been able to see your kids grow up? To watch a movie or sporting event? Even worse, you lose the freedom to go where ever you want, whenever you want.

I would bet you any money, that if you were made live for a year without sight and a year without hearing and then afterwards were made make choice between the two, you would pick to go deaf rather than blind.
 
People get hit by music in different ways and your affinity tends to be greater when you are younger. It was what I lived and breathed when I was younger. I'm just not as in to music now, but I still very much enjoy something that gets to me in the moment. YouTube is such a great boon to get a fix of things that pop into my head from years ago. I do end in the mid 90's though.
 
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