The Dudeism Oracool

Before all else, people use music for mood-enhancement. Psychologists have long known that different personality types are attracted to different kinds of drugs, legal and illegal. There’s a parallel here. We “take” a certain kind of music to steer our central nervous systems toward a particular condition: hard rock as the frenzied rush of cocaine; easy-listening genres as a martini; cheery supermarket Musak as a pick-me-up of coffee; cool jazz as a laid-back marijuana high; the far-flung landscapes of classical music as the fantasy realm of psychedelics.

–Robert Jourdain, Music, the Brain, & Ecstasy