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What music is to me is a very important art form that can allow for creative expression. My favorite artists are the ones who strive to be themselves. I think the most important thing people can do with music is inspire others whether it be to make music of their own or make up something new if they are looking for it. I think that is really the only thing that you can do for another is inspire them.
- Jacob Rockwell

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The Beatles - Yesterday (Live With Spoken Word Intro, New York) [Remastered 2015]

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Music has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember. Whether it’s singing in church, listening to songs at home, or playing amazing pieces on the saxophone, music has always created the balance I needed in life. It brought me into a world without stress or anxieties for at least a period of time. But most importantly, music has helped me find a wonderful community of people who share similar interests, and I am honored to be a part of that community.

-Henry Smith

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Jazz class was the perfect  place to relive the stress of the school day and just sit down play and relax for an hour and a half.
-Henry Phillips

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Music is a big part of who I am it makes me feel many emotions sad Or mad and even happy if I want to tune the world out I play music it helps me calm down my Nerves sometimes music even teaches me life lessons   That adults could not teach me also sometimes it makes me feel powerful and fearless there are so many things that music does to me I think it’s why it has such a big impact on people today  -Jullee burns♥️

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For me, music is the way I choose to express my feelings. It's like what visual art is to the eyes, what dance is to the body. Music can stimulate your body, your eyes, as well as your mind. Whenever I'm feeling down, and my mind is in a very good place, my go-to solution is to pop and earbuds and listen to my favorite album. Music is such a great Outlet because anyone can do it. There doesn't really have to be any kind of rules, some music is just based on creating different sounds. I find that improvisation really sets me free. It's for these reasons that I think I'm going to spend the rest of my life creating music
-Jeremy Jarvis

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1.3  Reba  - 1996-08-17 | The Clifford Ball, Platsburgh, NY

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Music to me has been there for me when I was at my deepest lowest points in life and helped me pull myself out of those deep holes of darkness in my mind. The feeling of music can be substituted by any other substance on earth, it is truly something pure. Music is my key to happiness.

- William Matthews

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RHCP - Don't Forget Me LIVE (Frusciante is incredible !)

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When people make or preform music, they have a way they want it to sound. Music is nothing but expression and it affects people in differently depending on how you react to the sound. There is many reasons for that but one big reason is how you grow up and the experiences in your life. Proving the point that music is much more then just sound to the ear it’s something that could be much deeper. Music is manipulation of sound so the end goal for me is to understand and master how to make it feel and sound exactly how it is in my head. I want people to know more about me by just listening to my music. I feel like music is a way to understand people and look at things from a different perspective. Everyone has music that they connect to but I like to listen to different types of music and try to understand the sound and feels of the music so I can see what those people connect with. Moral of the story is that music affects us in a way we cannot understand but it is very emotionally driving to us and it can tell us things about ourselves that we didn’t know.
-Adam puentes

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Music has always been my escape. Whenever I wanted to turn the world off I’d just turn some music on. Now, music is my life. Everyday I’ve been working harder and harder to become a better musician and I hope to one day make my living off of music.

-Tyson Baker

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Tony Williams Quintet -  NY Live 1989.  Part 1 of 2

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Music reminds me of the deep conversation me and my girl friends would have, It reminds me of me and my friends spending New Years together watching the ball dropping into the new year with my girls by my side...music reminds me of the food times 💛
-Egypt Wynn

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Count On Me - from Waiting to Exhale - Original Soundtrack

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Count On Me - from Waiting to Exhale - Original Soundtrack

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My everyday life has always involved music. From growing up listening to The Rolling Stones I have always had a life with music. Now may be different, but music is still and always will be in my life. Music is an essential. Even when I’m not listening to music, I have a song going in my head. Sometimes I even hear things on the road, like grooves in the road and try to make beats out of it. Music is so much to me. It is my life. I couldn’t imagine a world in which music was not in.
Luke Simpkins

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“Some days you just have to create your own sunshine”
Luke Simpkins

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Music makes me feel less lonely and happier. It makes myself to express more. Music also helps me focusing on doing things. I mostly listen to classic rock and indie music. I discovered a lot of artists during quarantine.
-bianca manalo

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Music has always been a great way for me to relieve stress. Weather playing around on guitar trying to puck out a song, playing trombone in the band, or just listening to some of my favorite artists, music has been and remains a huge part of my life. I am so thankful for the opportunities provided to me through music, such as the all county and all district band clinics. To anyone considering continuing to pursue music, I would strongly encourage you to keep with it, its one of the most rewarding thibgs I am involved in! -Jack Hubbard

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Music keeps me busy and helps me make mental progress. It can also be an escape from stressful situations. -Isabel Garriott

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Summer Salt - Candy Wrappers (Official Video)

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For me music is a way to distract myself from reality, and focus on one thing. it becomes a haven that I can just enter to help me out in all of my endeavors. -Jeff W

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Music has kept me focused even when there are so many
distractions around me
-Hayden G

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“Music is a story about life, and it’s a story about heart. No body wants to hear a C sharp Major with a sharp 11 and all the technical things, because that’s not music, that’s craft.” Herbie Hancock said this in one of his opening lines to the intro video to his Masterclass, and I think he did that for a reason, it’s because it means something. I feel as he was trying to say that if music doesn’t mean and thing to the person who made it, then it really isn’t music, it’s just something that was created. He also goes on to say, “If it’s devoid of the heart, then it (music) doesn’t mean anything”. Which I think it wraps up my point well, music needs to come from the heart for it to mean something and when it means something it’s usually good music. This point is not only prevalent in jazz, it’s everywhere. I have watched popular music go from music to “craft”, and I’m using craft lightly. Hearing older music compared to today’s music is very different. For instance, listening to Tupac rap about the women he loved, compared to whatever people like Lil pump rap about basically nothing. This trend of going to music that isn’t about anything is also in other genres such as pop. An example would be LaLaLa by Y2K, they aren’t really, fast singing/rapping? But anyways, it’s about nothing the lyrics don’t make much sense. But don’t get me wrong, most of these songs that I have listened sound good and have a good beat to them, that’s reason why they are popular, for the most part at least. But I believe music is taking a trend away from being music from the heart to craft that might make you popular. I did all of this to say that to express my feeling about the way I see music moving, and they music is moving is not necessarily a bad thing, if you find enjoyment or you connect with it, then who am I to tell you that you are wrong? Music is here to be enjoyed, the only thing is every song can’t be a joke or be meaningless.

Ethan Ebert

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Herbie Hancock Teaches Jazz | Official Trailer | MasterClass

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Music is a great way to escape the stresses of online school or the world during these crazy corona times. I can either pull out my trombone and diddle for a while, or I can cue up some jams on my phone. I love music, its great.
- Sam Pearsall

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Music has helped me to stay focused when working and can sometimes give messages that people can relate to but can’t put into their own words. Music can be calming, exciting, relaxing, and put you into almost any emotion you can imagine. Ellie Pearsall

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Music is such a hard thing to describe because of how much it means to me. Music is an experience, and like every experience in life, it has bad moments, but the bad is always overshadowed by the good. There can be days of practice put into a singular piece, and it'll sound amazing, but it won't be where you or your band director want it, so you practice even longer, but then, the concert rolls around, and it's a little bit scary because you aren't sure you can play every part in all your music, but then, your band director tells you how proud of all of you he is, and suddenly, it doesn't matter as much if you play perfectly, because you realize how hard you worked, and feel proud. It's a lot of work to be a part of a successful band, but the feeling of accomplishment, the knowledge that you're now apart of something greater, and the joy from hearing the applause of a grateful audience at the end are worth all of the struggle it takes to get them
JP

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john coltrane & johnny hartman / "my one and only love"

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Music to me is a way to relax and distract myself, it’s a way to step out of where i am and escape for a little bit and clear my head. listening to music is also so good for cheering me up when i’m getting overwhelmed, or calming me down when i get upset. for me music is also a way to connect, it can bring people
together, marching band an orchestra have connected me to new people, many of which became my closest friends. music is such a big part of my life, so i hope i explained a little bit of it here!  -Rae

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this song is not only a classic, but shows the pure passion that people have for jazz
Alex

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Music means a lot too me, it helps me calm down when I feel stressed or angry, music feels good in the soul and some music makes me want to dance, music too me is that it can motivate me into doing stuff I could never do and help me push in difficulty stuff, music gets me through some tough times like when I’m feeling sad and music is the only thing that can calm me down, my favorite type of music are music that are calm, music that have a funk too it ( like jazz ) and music that can make the person listening to it want to move around and dance to it, music means a lot to me that it can bring family members closer with a specific music, and music brings joy. Music can mean a lot to people, and it could be one way to let out there message to the world.

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Music to me is just another language, and every time you practice you’re just learning new ways to speak this language. Music can say all and more that words can.
Reece Nelson

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If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know”-Louis Armstrong
Alex P

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Always end the day with a positive thought. No matter how hard things were, tomorrow’s a fresh opportunity to make it better ❤️.
Miried Sanchez

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Music is a key to my soul since I was bored musics frees the mind and helps u over come challenges.I know this because I use music to make the world a better place and make the right decisions.Ever one uses music to change them for the better and for fun times to get away from the world.-CJ Wrestling 😂

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Music means to mean when someone wants to say something that is on there mind or someone or something they miss -Liam dell

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Ed Sheeran - Shape of You (Official Music Video)

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West - Sleeping At Last

This man, Ryan O’Neal, and all of his music and their stories have helped me so much since I found them. Music in general is something that keeps me going. It brings me out of sadness and keeps me going, calming and bringing joy to me.
Kallie

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“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens”-mandy hale
- Maria Hernandez

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Music is a way of life. The different genres of music help you determine how you life it. You see many things but the variety in music is that like no other. Every time you hear something new it’s a way to be YOU.-Henry Hubbard

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Through every dark night, there’s a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up.... and handle it
-Liam Dell

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during a time when almost all of us would rather be somewhere else after being stuck in our houses all day music can really bring you to another place. When everything gets too overwhelming you can just shut the world out with your favorite song and, in your mind, you can be wherever you want for a little while. music grounds people and brings people joy in the hardest times. even in the darkest days people turn to artists for a little bit of freedom. -fern

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I've always enjoyed listening to music. Listening to music helps me to relax after a long, grueling day and to wind down after a hard day of school and work. Singing songs while drawing or running my trains helps me to unwind and relax.
Jonah Snyder

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I Am A Man Of Constant Sorrow (Radio Edit)

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Over the course of the social isolation so far, music has helped keep me company. When I am bored and cannot talk to my friends, I am able to turn to music and stay entertained and happy for hours at a time. I have listened to many different songs and learned of a lot of new songs during quarantine.
-Riley Platz

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Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody (Official Video Remastered)

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the mind is so powerful, do not give the control to believe that everything will go wrong, dominate it, think positive and you will see positive results
Elvi basilio

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To me music is something to escape reality and just enjoy. It doesnt matter if you are a musician or you're just listening to it, music can help you think or relax or change any mood you're in.

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"If you want to do something go for it. You've got nothing to lose. -Louis T."

~Maddie McCranie

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“It’s going to be hard and it’s gonna get harder, but hard doesn’t mean impossible.”
Music has really kept me distracted from what’s going on and it’s really kept me somewhat relaxed, but I do miss my friends and my favorite teachers because I realize that being a sophomore I only have 2 years left in high school and the way life is, most of the people I know here I will probably never see again after senior year so I just want to experience as much as I can during the short time I have left at Reynolds.
-Tyler

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Music gets me through life. Something rough happens, and I’ll bathe myself in comforting tones to help get through, it’s helped a lot right now.
-Ella

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we are all bored, and i fight my boredom with music. playing music ans listening to music is always a solution to boredom because every time you listen or play something you hear something new.
-marissa

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Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue [Official Music Video] [HD UPGRADE]

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I’ve been listening to 311 here is one of their famous quotes
“Be positive and love your life”- 311
-Tyson Hinkle

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Music has kept me busy and entertained, I’ve never practiced this much in my life but I’m starting to get use to it, and it’s really become enjoyable. I’ve been listening to a lot of jazz like Brian blade, it keeps the mind relaxed.

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You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, let go, and see what happens.
Reece

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"It's you I like, just the way you are."-Mr. Rogers

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"It's you I like, just the way you are."-Mr. Rogers

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Jonah Snyder

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Life is short, make the most of it
-Janathian Viles

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Music is like my number one supporter it's with me when I'm mad, sad, or dealing with a loss. It's also with me when the days are rough and on the days when I can't sleep. If music was not with me I'll just be some old dead tree.

-Dezmond

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Music is what motivates me to get better and improve in everything I do, it’s what makes me feel better when I’m sad,  It’s what keeps me going. It also brings my whole family together it keeps us united no matter what happens, no matter who is mad at who we can all come together and enjoy some Ponta or Batchta and everything will be okayb.Pae-Pae❤️

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Music has helped me during this time by keeping me cool headed and positive music to me can be very empowering and pretty calming -Matthew Epermanis

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During this crazy time music is one of the few things keeping me sane ! I listen to music like 24/7 and all types of music. Music helps me not worry about the things going in because it can be stressful just thinking of the endless possibilities of what is next. Overall music is amazing and it’s just good for keeping your mental state in check!- Alexa R.

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Bob Marley - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

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Keep looking up that's the secret of life -Xiomara

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For me during this time, music has and continues to be an opportunity to destress and clear my head. Whether I’m listening or playing pieces, music comforts me during this time. -Jonah Unks

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so music has helped me a lot during this time. i connect my phone to my bluetooth speaker and turn my lights on in my room. i listen to music and vibe all the time. it helps keep my spirits up. please take care of urself!! -hannah

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Life is short make the most of it.

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Music really is helping me get through this.

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Music really is helping me get through this.

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Without music, I really don't know where I would be right now. Playing music is pretty much the only thing that keeps me motivated at this point. I listen to it while doing school work, chores, walking my dog, and just about everything else. I've rediscovered my favorite artist from a few years ago, and their music really is helping me.
There are some really creative artists out there too, like the group below.
Can't wait to perform with you guys again next year!
-Isaac M.

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I miss going to school, seeing my friends, going to my favorite classes and laughing with my favorite teachers.
-Tyiesha

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Anthony Brown & group therAPy - I Got That  (Official Music Video)

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Without music I wouldn’t be the same at all. I personally feel like music is the only thing keep this world stable at a time like this. During this quarantine I’m starting to understand the music and feel the music expanding my feelings towards the music instead of just listening to it -William McBride

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Without music over this break I don’t know what I’d be doing I’m starting to write my own stuff and it’s making me happy because I can finally write out what I’m playing and actually understand it -Isaac Moreland

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EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE A BEAST - Eric Thomas

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music has been just about the only thing keeping me sane right now . from having more work than usual to not being able to see my friends , i rely on music to keep me grounded .

- justin

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During this time of social distancing, how has music helped you to remain positive and brought joy in your life? What are you listening to that helps you with this new normal?

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During this time of social distancing, how has music helped you to remain positive and brought joy in your life? What are you listening to that helps you with this new normal?

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Music has taken me to worlds and lands that I could only dream of. The joy I feel when I hear my students take pride in the quality of their work and the music they create is unmatched. I am thankful for the feedback and dialogue shared with my peers and co-workers from all over the nation.
J.Hamiel -Director of Bands-RJR

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Pharrell Williams - Happy (Official Video)