How is it that a song…just one song can change your whole day?

Why don’t I listen to music all the time?

Why don’t I just turn on music when I’m feeling down?

I was feeling shitty a few minutes ago…a song later, my spirits have lifted. Three minutes later, I’m dancing around my house.

What business do I have feeling anything less than euphoric anyway?

It’s a beautiful day…none of my loved ones are fighting in Iraq; I have a beautiful home…and a stereo.

QUOTES ON THE SUBJECT OF MUSIC:

“Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.“
~ Robert Browning

“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.“
~ Victor Hugo

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.“
~ Aldous Huxley

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.“
~ Leo Tolstoy

“Without music, life would be a mistake.“
~ Friedrich Nietzsche

mel·an·chol·ic [mel-uhn-kol-ik]
adj.

Characterized by or causing or expressing sadness; “growing more melancholy every hour”; “her melancholic smile”; “we acquainted him with the melancholy truth”

[syn: melancholy] n : someone subject to melancholia [syn: melancholiac]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University

RELEVANT QUOTES:

“Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad”

— Victor Hugo (French romantic Poet, Novelist and Dramatist, 1802-1885)

“I can suck melancholy out of a song as a weasel sucks eggs.”

— William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, Playwright and Poet, 1564-1616)

“Many men are melancholy by hearing music, but it is a pleasing melancholy that it causeth; and therefore to such as are discontent, in woe, fear, sorrow, or dejected, it is a most present remedy”

— Robert Burton (English Writer and Clergyman, 1577-1640)

“Who can explain the secret pathos of Nature’s loveliness? It is a touch of melancholy inherited from our mother Eve. It is an unconscious memory of the lost Paradise. It is the sense that even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever.”

—  Henry Van Dyke (American short-story Writer, Poet and Essayist, 1852-1933)

“I think that the indefinable space between happy and sad is the most moving and compelling place for an artist to be. If there’s anything I consistently strive for, it’s a melancholy limbo.”

—  Shawn Colvin

“‘Tis melancholy, and a fearful sign Of human frailty, folly, also crime, That love and marriage rarely can combine, Although they both are born in the same clime; Marriage from love, like vinegar from wine – A sad, sour, sober beverage – by time Is s”

—  Lord Byron (English Romantic poet and satirist, 1788-1824)

“. . . she indulged in melancholy – that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries . . .”

— Charles Dickens quotes (English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)