Questionnaire Responses: Question 4

Who does the music you make belong to? Does it belong to you or to somebody else?

my music is not a tangible thing that one can posses.... it neither belongs to me or to anyone. music just is.

The music I make can belong to me, or it can belong to someone else, it depends on the situation. Certain songs, or times when I'm alone it belongs to me. If I'm performing it belongs to a combination of the audience and myself.

Music belongs to the one who created it. For me, that means my Creator.

The music I make belongs to me, I'm just sharing when I perform

Music belongs to the creator, and it belongs to everybody who hears it, and remembers it, and is impacted by it.

Music belongs to any who cares to listen, no - not listen. who cares to feel - but not just feel. To internalize, to experience, to commit themselves wholly to whatever they are hearing, if only for a split second - to be oblivious of their surroundings. It belongs to those who allow themselves to be submergered, surrounded, drowned in the euphoria that is music.

I've never thought about this before. It belongs to me and then belongs to the listener. It first belongs to me because without me, that particular performance wouldn't exist.

always for me. helps me clear my head and think properly.

Someone told me once that a musician is like a waiter bringing a fine meal to a table; the waiter is not there to receive any credit, he is there to make sure that the meal gets from the chef to the patron intact. Musicians sometimes think we are more important than we are. We are ultimately there to serve the music, and sometimes thinking that it is "ours" gets in the way of the music itself. However the chef doesn't own the meal any more than the waiter or the patron; it may be his/her creation, but it has no real value unless it is experienced by someone, and so to think of it as a possession at all doesn't seem to apply.

The music I make belongs to anyone who is willing to hear it, and for whom it sticks with just a little. A piece doesn't need to be your favourite work, constantly playing on your iPod. The power of music lies in the fact that, for me anyways, in every event and moment in my life, I can remember a song that seems to accompany it. So I would say that my music belongs to anyone who, at some point in their life, remembers that one little song and smiles at how it relates to what is happening at that moment.

My music belongs to me, but the music that I make for school purposes sometimes belongs to someone else.

The music I make belongs to anyone who hears it, but it does not belong to me. I feel the music as I am making it but loose it right away. It doesn't exist to me after I finish singing, but it stays with those who heard it.

My music belongs to the one that I love. It has since I first fell for her. Every song is for her.

My music belongs to anybody who hears it. Restrictions of copyright and ticket-costs for concerts are ridiculous necessities that hold back the true possibilities of art in general, and music in particular.

My music belongs to God. Everything I am and do, I give to Him. After all, where does inspiration come from?

Everyone. Music is shared, as soon as sound emits in performance, the music is no longer yours.

It always belongs to me, because I make it, but it is sometimes FOR other people.

It belongs to me. Anyone who listens to my music is listening, and learning all about me.

Now it definitely belongs to me. It used to belong to my teacher. I always had to please him/her, and never myself. Even at my own graduation recital. I didn't make the music that I wanted to make. I didn't get to show my audience members who I was. Now I perform as ME!

The music I make belongs to me, the music you hear belongs to you. They are not mutually exclusive.

Music belongs to the people that listen to it. It never means to you what it means to me. I only own what I take from it, because no one can take that from me. I'm just glad other people can have it to themselves as well.

Does it have to belong to someone? Maybe the music is just there and everyone depends on it, like the air we breath. ...I am such a hopeless romantic.

the music is first theirs, and until they adopt me. still, there is always that feeling of adopted-doubt; what is my real mother like? do i have siblings? what would i have been like, if...?

My music has always come solely from me and only me. It belongs to me, so that I can share it. It has always been the most personal thing in my life. Afterall, the best part of your playing is you. ;)

The music I make belongs to everyone who cares to listen to it. Music's for sharing!

The music I make belongs to other composers, I am not a composer and would much rather try to recreate the beautiful things I hear.

Partially to the composer, but partially to the performer(s), (whether I make it alone or as part of a group and then we would have collective ownership, because the musical decisions were made as a group)

Music belongs to everyone, no matter who's name is one it, if you hear it apart of it becomes yours even when you don't notice it, and its realizing what is happening that can alter your perspective and sometimes your life style and patterns.

My music often belongs to my studio teacher, as i create and shape it in order to satisfy and impress his/her desires. My music can belong to my friends, when we collaborate in musical experiences through accompanying, duets, or ensembles. My music can belong to myself, in those moments that i play for my own pleasure and joy, with disregard to the wishes and desires of anyone else. these moments i feel the most freedom, but also the most uncertain about who i am and what my music is trying to say, as I am unaccustomed to hearing only my own musical voice.