Questionnaire Responses: Question 5

What question would you like to be asked? What would your answer be?

What do you want to do with music?.... I want to share music with all those who are willing to listen. Music touches people in a way other mediums cannot. Music is a universal language, it can communicate across cultures. Music provides healing and enjoyment for all who participate in it.

Does being a musician get easier? I don't know, but I don't think that would change anything for me anyway.

Do egos help the group or do they hurt the groups chances for development? They hurt the group, egos feed inhibitions. Everyone needs to be on the same page if we are going to work together.

Q:Would you like your degree right now, so you can just go travel? A: yes. please.

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I would like to be asked, why does music matter? It's a huge question to answer that I really don't think I can fully at all. I think that in a world so full of chaos and monstrous acts, the arts need to be present as the one thing that can bring everyone together. In recent years, both Live 8 and Live Earth were formed to bring large groups of people together to raise awareness for serious global issues. Do you think that the masses would have turned out to hear speakers or look at statistical evidence? Of course not. Music brings people together. It always has, and it always will as long as we continue to recognize its dire importance in today's society.

Do you feel that Laurier is offering you enough to express your full potential? No.

I would for someone to ask me the best place to make music. The answer is a park. A park where the sun is shining and kids are playing and people are laughing.

What do I see myself doing with music after university? I don't know, but as long as one aspect of my life includes music, I will be happy with that.

I have more questions to ask rather than be asked.. But what would the point be? Our school has more politics, way too much. There are many questions, but none of them would ask us. Will the music world always be like this? Since when did someone own music? Music is for everyone... and for the one creating it. Sigh....

What frustrates me about music? -Individual centralization -The misinterpretations of subtle nuances

If you could go back and restart University what would you do differently? I would be far less timid about my opinions, and not let teachers push me around, because of certain life circumstances. I would also be less lazy.

"Do you think you are talented?" Yes and no. Talent sometimes is unique skill, and I have that. Talent is also discipline and technique, and I don't have that.

Does being a musician constitute selfishness or selflessness? Both. If you don't do it for yourself, then you will never connect with people. If they cannot recognize your intimate relationship between art and emotion, it ceases to be music. But, if you aren't giving up everything to your music, you aren't being true to your relationship. Is love for another selfish or selfless? Both.

Not sure...

why are music students always a little different from everyone esle and lack the barriers of age more so then other majors? and i would say it is because we all make music together and in one way or another share our emotions with each other and age doesn't matter, nor does class size.

How do you feel when you make music? I feel that I am able to shut the world out and fold into my instrument and the music that we are making

What inspires your music? Knowing that I am able to express myself through it, it can be therapy, i can express everyone emotion I feel through it. Music understands me in times when I dont.

them: are you passionate about what you are doing? me: i sometimes wonder.