as a free thinker/humanist, old and new knowledge is equally important, and you can find both old and new ideas in songs too. [other source for philosophy knowledge?] - i had my primary and secondary education in a catholic school (marist school). we were given education on all sorts of religions and philosophies. in fact, it is from school that i learned about most of the fallacies and stupidities that allmost all religion have primarily songs are entertainment for me, although most of the lyrics depict real life situations

Music doesn't influence my life's philosophy. I just like to listen to music for pure enjoyment and relaxation.

Lyrics are very important to me when I consider a song, more than melody strictly – for melody, I listen to classical music :). I was grown on De André and Guccini's (two great Italian poets and singers) songs, from which i got much of my early philosophy of life – most of it comes from books too; then I've studied philosophy too, so I got to consider many views of life. I was also grown as I Catholic but I quickly realized religion doesn't convince me. You probably don't know De André and Guccini... well, they were influenced from Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen; the point is that they sing in Italian so they're much easier to be understood to me ;). I learnt a lot from John Lennon too, fro example from "Imagine" or "Give peace a chance"...