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# Why Music Keeps Us Coming Back For More
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/why-music-keeps-us-coming-back-for-more/
- Published: 2011-02-11T12:20:00.000Z
- Updated: 2011-02-11T12:20:00.000Z
- Description: "Music itself can be identified as a language. Every language has structure, each with a set of grammatical rules put into place for correct communication. Yet beyond structure music also. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2011/02/why-music-keeps-us-coming-back-for-more.html]
- Author: Bruce Houghton
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"Music itself can be identified as a language. Every language has structure, each with a set of grammatical rules put into place for correct communication. Yet beyond structure music also has the ability to create feelings and emotions without a verbal context. Music, like words, has the ability to make us cry, enlighten and transcend us. By alternating the pitch, rhythm and tempo, we are subsequently intrigued by these violations in communicating through music, which leaves us coming back for more." – **Vanessa Wheeler**, [SoundCtrl](http://www.soundctrl.com/blog/2011/02/11/guest-post-ive-got-music-on-my-brain-by-vanessa-wheeler/?ref=hypebot.com)