An open music box with a ribbon of silver light rising from it on a plum cloth.

Original artwork, not a still

Dick Clark

Music is the soundtrack of your life.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

Calling music a soundtrack gives everyday experience an accompaniment like that of a film. Songs need not describe events literally to become associated with them. The comparison suggests that what a person hears can help give different periods and moments their distinctive feeling.

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