Why is music so important to many of us? What's going on in the brain activity?

Question

Why is music so important to many of us? What's going on in the brain activity?

Answer 1

Music is sooo important to me.

Whenever i'm stressed or hurt, i just listen to music.

Some songs, you can relate to so easily.

And.. it just keeps your mind off of other things, and sometimes lets you focus on other stuff.  

Answer 2

music is sooo important to me.

it helps me think and overlook things.

especially while im driving... it's good for that. it helps a lot and when im done listening to music i have a better outlook on things, seriously.

music is great.

Answer 3

I think that most of the time life is so hard for most of us and sometimes we feel like we just want to escape our real and hard life and listen to music we like which puts us in a different place where we can express our feelings and get away from reality. We calm down and feel better and can go to a place where we can do whatever we want. It takes us away and calms us and we feel so much better.

Answer 4

I love music. It helps to get by hard times, it helps to celebrate the best of times. My personal favorite thing to do in this world is to go to shows. I believe the greatest high for me in life is when I'm at a show singing along with thousands of other fans to one of my favorite bands. It's so cool to look around and feel the energy of the crowd singing a song in unison.