I have a little story to share.

When my girl friend broke my heart, i felt like my life was over. i was ready to marry her, i was ready to start a family with her. i didn't want to live without her. Everyone said i was too young to think that since i'm still in highschool but i didn't care. i was ready. when she ended it, i was in a depression that i couldn't get out of. One day i was listening to music and Rise Against came on. usually i just change music because i didn't really care for them, but that day i decided to listen. I loved them. I listened to more songs and then bought the new album. it got me out of depression and may have saved my life.

If music has changed your life in a positive way, post it.

i'm not quite sure if music has saved or ruined my life, but it's no doubt what i've built almost everything around.

As I have said many times before, St. Anger, and in particular The Unnamed Feeling, saved my life over the summer. I don't really want to get specific because the predicament I was in was almost entirely my fault for being stupid. In any case, if I had not owned that album at the time (and I had barely listened to it at all up to that point), I'm almost 100% sure that I would not be here right now.

The current incarnation of my life is based around music, though this stage is still building itself up. I hope it actually goes somewhere as opposed to my other 'phase obsessions'. This has lasted the longest, though, being for at least 2-3 years, so hopefully I'm safe. Whether or not it's a good decision I can't tell you, but it is quite fun :).

It's never quite saved my life, but has made it more enjoyable. See my sig.

I can't say music saved my life, since I've luckily never really been depressed or anything, but it certainly made my life much better, and playing music has probably changed my life.

Music can do both. Save or ruin.

I use it as a crutch allot though.

Only in the last year have I become a huge musical person. I've always played instruments, sang, and listened to lots of music, but only recently did I discover metal, which I've got a current obsession with. I really hope it lasts. My current life ambition is to become accomplished with my guitar playing skills classically and to be good enough to apply that skill to everything. Basically, I would like to become a musician that plays everything from classical to metal to jazz to blues. If that happens, then music will certainly have changed my life positively.

Never has music reflected my feelings that intensely or be that dictating. For me music was always an art form and an expression, more like fiction, books, movies, or any other form of art. I have yet to have such personal impact. I like to listen to revel in its beauty and composition.

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Originally Posted by WhiffleBallTony

Only in the last year have I become a huge musical person. I've always played instruments, sang, and listened to lots of music, but only recently did I discover metal, which I've got a current obsession with. I really hope it lasts. My current life ambition is to become accomplished with my guitar playing skills classically and to be good enough to apply that skill to everything. Basically, I would like to become a musician that plays everything from classical to metal to jazz to blues. If that happens, then music will certainly have changed my life positively.

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I keep telling you, come to PA so we can form a sludge metal band! Yes, it won't happen, but it would be awesome, you can't deny that, haha.

Music is a soundtrack. When I was suicidal last, it provided the music with which I did awful things to myself and others around me, but when I came out of that, I found that certain artists had songs that touched me and helped me feel better.

I don't know that music has made me feel better, because it's aided in my feeling worse as well. It merely aids me in focusing feelings.