Music Makes You …

“Words make you think thoughts. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought.”

I saw that quote in a weekly posting from Roy Williams, the Wizard of Ads.

But it made me remember I'd seen something similar years ago from Yip Harburg, the lyricist of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow."

Every song you play has the potential to make me feel.

Use that advantage more often.

Try to maintain the joy you used to feel when you heard that song for the very first time because at least some of your listeners still do.

That song still reminds them of their first love, or the death of a parent, or the giddy hope of youth.

Music is emotion.

Stay aware of that. Believe in it.

Let it work for you.