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Music or books which has had more influence on you?

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By (user no longer on site) OP   
over a year ago

And making you what you are.

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By *icentiousCouple
over a year ago

Up on them there hills

Science and sanity - Count Alfred Korzybski

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By *xpresMan
over a year ago

Elland

The Album that I can not do without in my life is Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction

Listens to it approx 2/3 times a week since 87...

I don't read fiction but last book that Blew me away was Girl A.. the story of the main girl in the Rochdale child rape scandal

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By *afadaoMan
over a year ago

Staines

All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy. Most beautiful boom I've read.

It was so descriptive and romantic that I immediately yearned to see America. It was set in Texas (and Mexico) but I managed to wangle a month off work and head to California, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.

Proper cowboy for a month and an unforgettable experience.

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs


"All the pretty horses by Cormac McCarthy. Most beautiful boom I've read.

It was so descriptive and romantic that I immediately yearned to see America. It was set in Texas (and Mexico) but I managed to wangle a month off work and head to California, Utah, Arizona and Nevada.

Proper cowboy for a month and an unforgettable experience."

Cool!! I did a few weeks in CA and Texas with proper cowboys - specifically the sage horse whispering types. It's a whole different pace of life, I love those guys.

But music has always been my biggest influence - start listening to Led Zep at 13 years of age and anything can happen!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Never really been big on book reading - I mean, I can read, it's just not something that really appeals much.

Now Music - that's a completely different matter.

Been Djing and playing guitar for over 20 years now, so you could say that Music is a big part of my life.

Enjoy a good broad range of artists, but top of the list goes to :

Pink Floyd, ELO, Green Day

Also, was a massive Jacko fan in the late 80's - 'Bad' era.

I tend to merit a song on it's own qualities rather than who it's by.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can't separate the two. Books and music both provide a way to find new and exciting ideas and states of mind.

If pushed, I'd say music. Probably. With a good lyric sheet.

And you can't read a book when you're driving a car, but you can imagine you're cruising down sunset strip if you've got the right tunes. Even if you're just stuck on a bleak ring road.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

books.

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By *emmefataleWoman
over a year ago

dirtybigbadsgirlville


"I can't separate the two. Books and music both provide a way to find new and exciting ideas and states of mind.

If pushed, I'd say music. Probably. With a good lyric sheet.

And you can't read a book when you're driving a car, but you can imagine you're cruising down sunset strip if you've got the right tunes. Even if you're just stuck on a bleak ring road. "
Totally agree.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I can't separate the two. Books and music both provide a way to find new and exciting ideas and states of mind.

If pushed, I'd say music. Probably. With a good lyric sheet.

And you can't read a book when you're driving a car, but you can imagine you're cruising down sunset strip if you've got the right tunes. Even if you're just stuck on a bleak ring road. Totally agree. "

Me too

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

My individuality is at my very core, I have always preferred to stand alone and be me, than stand with others and become them.

Any music that celebrates difference, I am in.

I am more driven by Art, than literature.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Metallica black album. I was a young impressionable teen when it came out and it's pretty much shaped my interests every since.

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By *uppy ConquerorMan
over a year ago

dundee

Bob Marley "One good thing about music, is when it hits you, you feel no pain" the same cant be said for books.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel

Kris Kristofferson , to beat the devil ... and too many others

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would have to say books. As a child I loved adventure books and tales of endeavour and battling the world

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By *edangel_2013Woman
over a year ago

southend

I'd have to say books. My Grandad taught me to read very young, and they have always been my escape route. When life wasn't quite playing nice, I'd hide in a book. Alice in Wonderland was my childhood favourite.

But music has that power too. Early Bon Jovi or GnR full blast and the world ceases to exist for a while.

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow


"And making you what you are."

2 books

1 film

Much music

Not so much making me who I am,

more opening my eyes to who we are.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Van Halen - 5150. The track "why cant this be love" was the first real rock song I ever heard and directed me to being the metal head I am today.

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

Books. I learnt a lot about fair play from Harry Wharton and Bob Cherry. Also the fact they were written in the 1920s etc, by a Victorian chap may have had a bit of an impact.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Music as it entered my life at a younger age than the books that are important to me

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Both. I grew up with the likes of Lord of the Flies, Beowulf and The Waterbabies. Classic stuff and still relevant as an adult.

In music, Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds had a huge impact on me and I grew up with Dire Straits, Deacon Blue and Iron Maiden.

Still I was of the generation that played hundreds of cheap computer games and watched every action movie in existence, so I am pretty well balanced for indoor activities as a child lol

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By *asmanian TigerMan
over a year ago

lala land

Music! Definitely I can _xpress my self through music I can say what I want and feel, as I write and play it

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you

books have been my lifelong companion,getting my first library card was a special moment

as a child books were my only escape from a reality I didn't always like

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By *alandNitaCouple
over a year ago

Scunthorpe

Definitely music for me, my brain runs almost exclusively on lyrics.

Cal

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Books were/are the foundation of a good life, but later on music takes over.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Definitely Music but I love to read too

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By *aceytopWoman
over a year ago

from a town near you


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Books were/are the foundation of a good life, but later on music takes over. "
I listen to music every day but I read every day as well,so both are just as important to me

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By *omMLMan
over a year ago

The Centre of the Universe

I love reading but if I had to choose one it would be music. If I am working it's classical. Exercising Soul, Pop & Dance. For everything else it's Rock. The Who, Stones, Doors, Kinks., Zep, Floyd, ACDC et al.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Music, although I love reading too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Book : "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse... helped me to realise that the road to enlightenment was via living life to the full, mixing things up, and keeping yourself fresh. Still living by that today

Music : Tekno tekno tekno ... totally blew my head off when I first heard it, made me into a little boy raver, and I guess I'm always gonna be a bit of a Tekno hippy because of it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Yes i like some music and certain books

Too I,m reading one now by michael wood

On the history of england I can,t normally

Just pick a book up I have to be in that

mood or right time of the week, where music is different and uplifting for me

If I like the music It can normally have

The edge over reading (uplifting and spontaineous) Is the phrase I,d use.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's a tough one, both can move me and touch my soul in equal measure

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Both but music in the main tunes have chilled me out got me through stressful times and there are a few lyrics that have brought things into perspective.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"That's a tough one, both can move me and touch my soul in equal measure"

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