But to know today what gospel music has done for my life and just for the world, in general, I never could have imagined it.
Large scale manufacturing, union power, a strong middle class and the music that became the soundtrack for American life all can claim roots in Motown.
For New Orleanians, music is to life what the halftime show is to the Super Bowl.
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Mr Pipes discovered early in adult life that his love for music and art was not matched by creative talent.
Take a Portuguese guitar, a soulful singer and a generous dollop of tender, world-weary melancholy and you have fado: the music that has been the soundtrack to Lisbon life for centuries.
The conclusion is the three concerts of sacred music which occupied Duke for the last decade of his life and which he regarded as the most important thing he had done.
Grant McLennan, Forster's friend and partner for his entire adult life, took up music at Forster's urging.
It was a heady time filled with parties and recording sessions and only one person was there to capture it all intimately -- famed music photographer Jim Marshall, who was covering the tour for Life magazine.
The music began its life in May 1841 as a single movement Phantasie for Piano and Orchestra.
Last December, lines snaked around Huashan when tickets for Urban Simple Life, the park's biannual music-design-food festival, went on sale.
The cumulative effect of the camera work, music, costumes and editing is one of exhilaration, a zest for life at odds with the navel-gazing that marred so many films of the New Wave.
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And hip-hop music videos celebrate the "Thug Life" and "gansta" attitude for any young black person seeking strong racial identity.
He had a huge appetite for life and I think what he gives to us in his music is what he terms, he called himself a foot solider in the service of music, and I think of him in that sense it would be the foot soldier reporting on the triumphs and tragedies of the world.
The frail-looking, soft-spoken 70-year-old, who is now a teacher at the music academy, recounted having to flee overnight to Quetta, Pakistan, fearing for his life.
For all his frustrations, sulks and cancellations, a life spent bringing music to mankind was the greatest joy imaginable: singing, and then the crowd's adoration for his singing, as he jumped from the kitchen table and the cheese, the wine, the pasta and the sausages were lavishly spread before him.
For Scottish musician JJ Gilmour, who co-wrote the music and lyrics, the life, rather than simply the football, was the fascination.
The boys who remained in his classes were often caught up in his love of art, music, and literature, and in his belief that every moment of life should be spent reaching for the transcendence of the Elgin Marbles, of a fresco by Fra Angelico, even of an ordinary sunset.
And I'm also a music scholar in my professional life, and so I've been running Soul Sides the audio blog now for - since about 2003.
He seems to have sensed that the music was in what he did, not what he said, nor could he ever for the rest of his life say anything that would measure up to the enormity of the achievement for which he had become the unwilling public face.
But if you love it, you love it for life, he said, and you don't mind that it's complex, nerdy music.
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