Does music help you?

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Words can't describe how much important music is, it's beyond words and doesn't need them - it's the essence itself .

Yup. Loud, stimulating music always makes me feel better.

Music is essential to me. I never go out of the house without my Ipod. I work faster and concentrate better with my headphones on. I have specific playlists for pretty much every situation - I couldn't cope without it.

find music to be a great stress reliever and is very relaxing IMO. Also I listen to music when doing chores, it makes the chores that I'm doing seem easier and I feel that I'm doing them quicker (I'm probably not but it doesn't bother me.

Good music is immensely important for me. Indescribable.

Yep, a matter of taste of course but there's a big difference between good and bad music. When they play bad music, according to me, on the radio for instance, I'll turn the thing off immediately. I'm really sensitive for sound in general, hypersensitive, and bad music can spoil my mood quite fast. On the other hand a newly found beautiful song could make me almost euphoric for days.... and moody if I don't hear it for a while. Quite obsessive music is for me. No doubt about it.

And then there is my piano also.... the instrument totally suits me. There are moments, playing it, I feel so very lucky I am able to. Pure necessity.... for me.

yes,music in a way does distract and it's a great way to calm down,am use some forms of metal and electronic to do so.
Music is used as therapy,it was one of the classes on the SpEd course am did though had to mess about on a computer with staff when everyone else did music as the class was extremely overloading.

Those interested in music as therapy should check out Nordoff-Robbins,have never used them but they do great work.

Like everyone else who posted here, I listen to music everytime I feel stressed or have to go outside. My iPod is an extension of my body, it's always with me.

It helps me forget about pretty much everything because I can't help but focus almost entirely on the music. I take 2 hour walks almost every day and they only seem to last 10 minutes for me because I'm so caught up in the music.

...And I should clarify too; while NEW music is torture until I've processed it by listening to it 700 times, I enjoy listening to music that I have already processed over and over again. I have a few self-made CDs and YouTube lists that I listen to when doing something which generally helps me get into the task. The exception is studying something. I need tomb-like quiet for that.

I'm not a music hater

If I didn't have the music I listen to and my iPod, I would have lost my mind a lonnnng time ago.
And most likely, my life too.

I take my iPod with me most places.

I am more engaged and happy when listening to music, unless it's something sappy then I immediately have to change it.

I think it's revealing how many people refer to "using" music. Such references certainly match my own perspective on music: music is a drug.

A drug is something that we use to achieve some physiological end (whether antibiotic, hormonal, neurolochemical, etc). I absolutely see nothing but proof all around us of the fact that music is therefore a drug--it's used to soothe, excite, heighten, diminish, motivate, etc etc etc. And, like most purely pharmaceutical products, "what works for one doesn't necessarily work for all."

I'm not going to get too carried away here, but if I had a dollar for every time I found music doing for me within milliseconds what hours/pounds/joules of effort had failed to do for me prior to engaging music as the tool of choice...well....I'd be one rich puppy.

...and all of that from someone who can't (and no longer be permitted to even try to) play a single musical instrument.

Music is a distraction that makes it hard to concentrate, handy when im feeling uncomfortable with my environment.

With the one exepction of techno & programming, then it seems to keep me locked into what im doing for many hours at a time (like 20 hours plus without a break). Down side is bad burn out and very very complex deeply recursive code involving 5+ dimensional data structures that is almost impossible to pick up easily later, let alone explain to someone.

I dont do that anymore.