Brandon Webster "My Passion for Music"

The funny thing is that as I sit here and post this blog I have music playing pretty loud in the background. I don't exactly know why it is that I grab on to music the way I do, but I do know that I'm not mad that I do. My music collection is pretty broad. I have different types of music I like to listen to when I am in different moods. Sometimes when I don't know what type of mood I am in (usually when I have to wake up at 5a.m.) I search for a song to decide that mood. It doesn't matter what I am doing, how mad I am or how happy or excited I am, I believe that there is a song, or an instrumental that I can listen to in order to calm my self in the stage of anger, or in the case of joy, a song that speaks almost exactly the excitement I feel at the time. I don't think I have a favorite song right now, I have a lot of favorite songs right now. Sometimes I wonder how a day, week, or even a month without music would have me feeling. In the thought of living and having music taken away from me I frown and flush those thoughts immediately. Once I have that thought, I say to myself "If it is ever taken away, I can always make my own and play it in my mind". I actually make music myself sometimes just for fun. I use song making to express what is inside my heart and mind sometimes. Reason for this is because opening up to people is a tough thing for me to do on that level if I have yet to grasp that level of comfortability with someone. So i just resort to do it with song. Music is like a therapy for me, there has never been a time where I have been like I don't want to listen to any music. I have a passion for music especially music with a meaning. Meaning as in music that doesn't just glorify the success of a person. I like my music to have some pain in it, express the conquering of some type of struggle because in the stage I am in life I can definitely relate to struggle. Music is like a friend to me.