Bandie. That sums me up completely. In grade school, I would go to parades, just to see the bands. I would cheer and yell, and some of the band members would smile as they went by. Others took their marching seriously and never smiled, but I knew that they were happy to have some people cheering them on. During my sixth grade year in middle school, I bought my own instrument: my now beaten up, clarinet. From that day on I was a music freak. From my iPod, to my clarinet, I have been playing music or singing it. Music has changed my life completely.
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” These were the words of Sergei Rachmaninoff, a Russian composer and pianist who was very influential in the twentieth century. In life people grieve, people feel all kinds of emotions but music sometimes is a complete emotion in its own. In my eyes music can be an escape for a minute or two, lasting for however long I desire. Music has been called a way of life for me. Somehow, it has made such a large influence on my world. I can think of many …show more content…
Wey Scholarship for Phi Theta would help me in so many ways to help continue my dreams and achieve my goals in music. To not just grow as a musician but to express my music to others. To inspire this generation and the next about what it is truly about. Musicians have the advantage of touching people with their lyrics or music; a gift some people will never be able to give as well, but have the chance to listen and to the feel the emotions put into a musician’s work. Some of us have musical talents and others don’t, but those who do can share their emotions through an expression, so to speak, with everyone else. The way music affects our everyday lives can be almost incomprehensible at times, but remember music is much more than dots on a page. It’s notes and rhythms written into a piece of work. Each one containing some kind of emotion that reaches a certain depth of our hearts and
“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music.” These were the words of Sergei Rachmaninoff, a Russian composer and pianist who was very influential in the twentieth century. In life people grieve, people feel all kinds of emotions but music sometimes is a complete emotion in its own. In my eyes music can be an escape for a minute or two, lasting for however long I desire. Music has been called a way of life for me. Somehow, it has made such a large influence on my world. I can think of many …show more content…
Wey Scholarship for Phi Theta would help me in so many ways to help continue my dreams and achieve my goals in music. To not just grow as a musician but to express my music to others. To inspire this generation and the next about what it is truly about. Musicians have the advantage of touching people with their lyrics or music; a gift some people will never be able to give as well, but have the chance to listen and to the feel the emotions put into a musician’s work. Some of us have musical talents and others don’t, but those who do can share their emotions through an expression, so to speak, with everyone else. The way music affects our everyday lives can be almost incomprehensible at times, but remember music is much more than dots on a page. It’s notes and rhythms written into a piece of work. Each one containing some kind of emotion that reaches a certain depth of our hearts and