Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Children -- "I dance to 'Dude Looks Like a Lady.' " -- "You have to have a lullaby before you sleep." -- "I just play with my songs . . ." -- "I was stuck in the snow cave, and I felt like listening to music." -- "They teach us that so we know what to do with our kids when we grow up." -- "I like to look for things that people don't really recognize." -- Teenagers -- "What would the human car do ... ?" -- "They play weird songs you have to be so old to know." -- "Rap is things you say fast. . ." -- "Sometimes I think about life, and all the problems I have." -- "I still have my violin from when I was five." -- "I listen to other music and then I go see the Dead." -- Young Adults -- "It's the first remedy for trying to get out of my boredom . . ." -- ". . . if I were to cuss someone out right after church, what does my singing mean?" -- "I'm not gonna sit there and worship someone." -- "It's about aggression." -- "Roger Waters is really it for me." -- "It's hard to explain . . . it's all feelings and emotions . . ." -- "They feel it more because they created the instrument." -- "It is not just the making of sound . . . it is how one nation expresses its opinion." -- Adults -- "Music is just part of life, like air." -- "It's a kind of critiquing . . . an enjoyable critiquing." -- ". . . I can't wait to come home and get back to my Neil Diamond." -- "I can't give it up." -- "To be the creator of it is to participate directly in that point of coherence of the earth, of the universe, of humanity, of meaning -- all else is darkness." -- "I like mood tapes, subliminals, and new age music. That really sets me free." -- "As I developed from childhood to adulthood, the music developed with me." -- ". . . if I don't think of music in terms of dance, I'll think of it in terms of colors.".

". . . if I don't know it perfectly, I won't do it." -- Older Adults -- "I actually become what I hear." -- ". . . country and western is the only . . . adult music." -- " It can make you cry, and then other times it can really perk you up." -- ". . . the type of music that sells today is for that age group that really doesn't care about the words." -- ". . . if I were home cleaning by myself during the day I might put Pavarotti on and have it shaking to the rafters!" -- "Regardless of what it is, somebody likes it." -- "I would say thirty percent of what I know about life today was gleaned from songs." -- Elders -- ". . . when I was in the service, when we had the band playing, it instilled a lot of things in you." -- "When you sing, you pray twice." -- ". . . if anybody wanted to dance at a party I was at the piano." -- " Well, I was beautiful then and, boy, could I dance." -- " It takes the fear away from you." -- Appendix: Music in Daily Life Guidelines -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.