Music is...

Music is a toddler singing in the bathtub while Mommy washes his hair.

Music is a father strumming a guitar or playing a harmonica, sitting by a campfire.

Music is the college kid writing songs on his acoustic guitar for his girlfriend.

Music is a congregation of any faith, joining together in song.

Music is the heartbroken high school girl, dressed all in black, her makeup smeared, locking herself in her bedroom to write songs about how her parents don't understand her.

Music is the high school boys that start a band for no reason other than to get girls, and then write songs about how they can't get girls.

Music is the band that drives around the country in a beat-up van to play shows in front of audiences that have never heard of them, in hopes of getting a record deal or otherwise "making it".

Music is the girl who goes to college to study opera.

Music is the kid who, despite lacking anything resembling talent, gets up on stage and performs at the talent show.

Music is friends singing karaoke together at a bar.

Music is the young prodigy who picks up a violin and eventually becomes an award-winning musician.

Music is a way of identifying with others.

Music is a way of expressing yourself.

Music is art in the form of sound; it is taking your emotions, feelings, thoughts, dreams, hopes, wishes, desires, fears- and singing or playing them in front of an audience, whether it is one person or one hundred thousand.