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    Quote Originally Posted by VelKallor View Post
    Olivia:

    People like me who have no musical gifts whatsoever, and may use a program like that to give my avatar in a fantasy game an ability I will never know in my entire life. One I have dreamt of having almost.forever.

    but my greatest wish, my fondest dream, was to be on stage with a musical instrument and let the music speak for my heart and soul. You could put the best midi keyboard in front of me and Id never know how to make that music.

    That, I cannot and will never know.

    If, by some small means, others can attain, that small dream inside a video game, then I see no harm in it.
    I'm classically trained in piano and have practiced thousands of hours, yet Vel's post is, to my mind, more genuinely authentic and a testament about what true love of music is than the OP's idea of it.

    Music exists to transcend words and languages, since it is understood and loved by humanity as a whole. I can write a piece in a minor chord, using diminished thirds and all just to make it uber sad, and someone/anyone will understand the feeling I'm trying to convey, no matter where in the world they are and what language they speak. Just because Olga Scheps can play Ballade 1 better than I ever could doesn't mean I don't want people exposed to Chopin or to hear his music. In fact, I'd welcome someone who could play this music better than I could to play it for more and more people so that they can, perhaps, grow to love it as much as I do. This wouldn't diminish me or my own talent in the least, but rather uplift the actual music itself.

    Unless you compose (as I sometimes do), we are all (musicians and non-musicians alike) just copying the work of another, although perhaps with our own lil interpretations at times. Let us just all love music in whatever form and from whatever source it comes from for what it is - a way to communicate the feelings humanity shares without words ^^
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    Quote Originally Posted by MirielleLavandre View Post

    Music exists to transcend words and languages, since it is understood and loved by humanity as a whole.
    As Stephen Spielberg has often said, his major hit films were successful because of their scores.


    I have favourite films and often re-watch them because the music accompanying the film makes it very special for me. Films such as Interstella , Inception , Shawshank Redemption and Jaws with many more I could list off.

    Heck I even like box office/film critics "flops" because I enjoy the score eg: Oblivion starring Tom Cruise



    There has been some wonderful shorts Ive loved as they were featured in a youtube channel or a tv show such as Netflix's AFterlife by Ricky Gervais

    Dave Thomas Junior - Silence

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bmz...ist=LL&index=9


    or a lovelly piece that was used in aViva La Dirt League - Epic NPC man video

    Uninvited · Alfie-Jay Winters

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7mk99no24I

    Music is the language of the human soul without borders.
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    I'm classically trained in piano and have practiced thousands of hours, yet Vel's post is, to my mind, more genuinely authentic and a testament about what true love of music is than the OP's idea of it.
    Thank you, probably the kindest thing anyone has ever said to me.
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