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  • best song ever made

  • If this was the only song I could listen to, my life would be better for it.

  • This purity can not be due to chance. The nature and life no longer.

  • The good thing about Thomas newman's music is that you can be any nationality to appreciate the beauty of his mellow tune.

  • @jgadd1994 amen

  • pimaz was here 22/09/2011

  • if you like thomas newman you will also like my music..a lot of my compositions are inspired by him! :-)

  • love it

  • definately a thinking persons song !!!! love it

  • brooks was here

  • @dnbpimaz Shawshank redemption

  • @Ginius87 yyyy :)

  • lindo faz me viver esta musica obrigado por existirem pessoas a fazer musica como esta. muda realmente tudo quando a ouvimos

  • It's amazing , thank you

  • Jay was here 14.8.11 x

  • Amo la musica di Thomas..amo gli immaginari che riesce a creare ovunque.

    I love this!

  • This is the soundtrack from the movie ¨Shawshank Redemption¨, the track is called ¨Brooks Was Here¨.

  • I love that Seal used the piano part for one of his songs. Usually when an artist uses a part of a song from another composer, I say they're stealing and are unoriginal, but when Seal is using such a beautiful piece like this, it's completely different and just absolutely beautiful.

  • @htmiller9 Seals song was called 'My Vision' from his Seal (IV) album released in 2003.

  • I know it always sounds stupid when people comment about the dislike bar, and I usually hate when people do, but whoever disliked this song is missing out on a hell of a good part of life.

  • what move is this from?

  • @robin8359 Shawshank

  • It's by listening to a song like this that we realize just how fragile we are.

    Before you know it a page turns over and you're in the next chapter of your life.

    No matter how you look at it you need to make sure that when your time comes you can look back at your life without regrets. Make the most out of it and never look back at something gone wrong in a negative way since the mistakes we make shape us into who we are.

  • la amo por siempre

  • I just relived all the happy moments in my life in five minutes and six seconds...

  • This song reminds me of a quote by Einstien:

    Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

  • The irony behind songs like this one especially is it keeps me going, makes me stronger when there's almost no hope left, this song i believe is written for "Brooks" and is called "Brooks was here" from shawshank redemption just before he hangs himself, yet somehow instead it inspires you to stay alive to be reminded by more of TN's work that there is some beauty left out there and with newmans help you can capture it. That being said I look forward to hearing this in heaven <3

  • Estoy tan feliz de que Thomas Newman esté pisando el suelo, y en nuestra era. Es el compositor más fabuloso y creativo que jamás haya imaginado.

  • This made me think :)

  • shawshank redemption??

  • The sound of wonder

    The sound of warmth

    Healing all Wounds of the Past

    Away from the crowd

    Away from the burn

    Away from the tears

    (To TN)

  • It's ironic that people are talking about the meaning of life on this video when it was written to be the soundtrack to an old man committing suicide

  • @Torka123 it's all in interpretation. maybe he meant for it to be ironic like that:)

  • God, this is so beautiful.

  • heh, to all those kids out there liking Thomas Newman, try classical tunes as well :) and I don't mean the big known tunes, but also the unknown ones, like on the lists(List_of_Medieval_compose­rs) on wikipedia :) I'm sure there are tunes you will like(or even recognise)

  • Thomas Newman captured my musical interest years ago. To this day he is my all time favorite composer of soundtracks!

  • Jgadd I feel ya other music and artist now a days are mostly reflecting on how great they're lives are and money sex and drugs but this music can help a person see the world in a different point a view for the positive, it helps me sleep at night

  • I'm 17 and all my friends at college are into completely different music like most teens. E.g hip-hop, pop, dubstep, rap, rock... But for myself I find it peaceful to listen to this kind of music before I go to bed as a change to all the loud, catchy, poor-lyriced music that most teenagers these days are brought up into. I find it gives me that sence of difference and independence rather than listening to what your expected to listen too. I feel priviledged that I can allow my own choice

  • @jgadd1994 I'm 17 also and I agree 100% with you!

  • @jgadd1994 I'm also 17 and I agree. Although it's incredible what humans can accomplish when we work at a common goal, it's sad what society can destroy when we let it... in this case, musical taste.

  • Sometimes is better to be quiet and listen!

  • @aleusi2788 ....... True ;)

  • True art of ourselves.... Thomas Newman

  • Brooks was here...

  • This piece is so beautiful. Composers like Thomas Newman, Josh Kramer, and Dario Marianelli have a way of using music to bring about such a visceral emotional response. I love that music can carry us away to that other place, if only for a few minutes at a time.

  • flawless

  • OBLIVION!

  • i love this song. i just uploaded my second time lapse video of a life drawing study i did. and yes i know i am sort of spamming but youtube won't give art it's own catagory so we are forced to pimp out our videos on popular music videos that vaguely relate. would appreciate any views comments or likes. thanks

  • I listen to this song and immediately it captures an emotion inside me i dont want to be unraveled. I spend my whole life trying to cover up the truth and pain ive been through. Life is hard, but listening to beautiful music like this allows you to open your eyes and believe you arn't the only one with a hard life. I wish i could change my life, as it seems all my friends have beauty that surrounds there lives......and me? Im just another mistake whos leading a life full of mistakes.

  • CAN EVRY ONE STOP BEIN SO DRAMATIC FFS

  • This composition is actually called "Brooks Was Here" from the film Shawshank Redemption.. Thomas is a genius love all of his stuff!

  • @MrGazza17 This is exactly what I was just about to post until I saw this comment. For all Thomas Newman fans, go and watch "The Shawshank Redemption" right now, amazing movie, complemented by an amazing score, by an amazing composer. (Thumbs up the comment so everyone knows what this song is actually called)

  • i love these songs :P their so peaceful, they make me realize how wonderful life is.

  • Check out my rendition of Anastasia main theme by Alfred Newman (Thomas Newman's Dad)!

  • every day i wonder why i was bornt....My life is so hard....I can't live like this anymore I talk and no one listens...Two brain surgeries in two years and i'm only 20 years old...and the doctors say that the tumor will be born again...They tell me to be strong and everything will be ok but i don't feel like that.My mother has got an illness 6 years now and in a few years she will be uncapable to walk....I feel so sad...i'm drowning and there is no one there to help me....Life is unfair.....

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  • @nikosyoulie Dont give in to the downside....Stay positive and pull yourself through this so that one day you can look back and say to your kids, if you put your mind to it you can accomplish anything and there is nothing to be afraid of....Good Luck

  • @xpoppiox yes indeed. as they say, 'there is nothing to fear, except fear itself' :)

  • @nikosyoulie It's so difficult. You are in so much pain. But only you can can carry yourself through the hurt. It's hard to have courage at times like this but you must stand up and face every day as though it belongs to you and remember that you are loved. Never give in, ever, ever. I'll pray for you my friend. Much love, Jevois2

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  • @nikosyoulie there is only one constant in existence, that is change

  • Where do these photos come from? Who does them?

  • you don´t should say sorry for the bad sound in the begining, we should say thank you for this video!! great!!

  • Much bollocks is written here

  • What is this song from...?

  • @Tekar111

    Shawshank Redemption. Brooks' theme.

  • Life gives you one chance its up to you to do the best you can with that chance that life has gave you.

  • There are people, some are lucky, some are smart, some just live, some are made great, some are born great, and others are the true artist and masters of greatness.

  • Brooks! My favourite scene. :(

  • This song sucks...

    oh snap i have a soul now! :D

    This song is win!

  • ...makes all pain bearable.

  • Thomas embraces something constant throughout every human being... No matter what race, gender, religious belief, whatever community or category they fall into. His songs are... predictable, but through that nature beautiful. They capture emotions at their source and try to be nothing more than what they are.

  • all i can see is my really good friend in my head listening to this :( weve fallen out al i love her so much .. i miss her this peice sums up how i feal :(

  • shawshank redemption <3

  • get busy living, or get busy dying.

  • N. 1

  • i love this man! :)

  • this is what real music sounds like.<3 :)

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  • this continues to be one of my all time favorite vids. thank you for putting this together. it has kept me "together" more than you can imagine. peace

  • I'm telling everyone...rest your mind and spirit for five minutes..5 Stars!!!

  • Brooks was here

  • If this song doesn't bring you to life...I don't know what else to tell ya..

    Most beautiful song I ever heard...

  • some people want to meet 50 cent, others want to meet rihanna. I want to meet thomas newman, so that i can shake his hand.

  • @bradicalable I know, right? This song puts me in a wonderfully peaceful place... it's like I'm free at last!!

  • @bradicalable omg my who wuld want to met 50cent??? =/

  • Its not true..................

    deception....we are deceiving ourselves....

    Life has a definite purpose...everything is dying after one another...why...

    everything is in pair in this world...where is the pair of this earth and our lives?

    wake up...dont forget ur CREATOR who has shaped u from a blood clot when u are nothing..

  • I love putting thomas newman

    songs on when I am on a long

    road trip threw the beautiful

    country side. His music

    takes my breathe away

    litarely and his music

    brings back bad and

    good memories that

    I can never let go of

  • @IndigoCat17 this happens to me too, different feelings and memories that come one after another, both good and bad...

    Thomas Newman is the best composer to me.

  • Thomas Newman is amazing

    I love this!!!

  • I love puting on Thomas Newman while riding my bike and jogging. Very inspirational

  • I find Thomas Newman so gentle so infinitely haunting and provocative, I 'm grateful to have found his work here on Youtube, Thank You for putting this together. The images and color so moving...

  • lovely pure lovely shakes my heart arouund xx

  • "Brooks was here".

  • oh my god... i am coming so close to crying... this is a beautiful song... true music, you can tell it when you hear it. it touches your heart, your soul, and makes you feel hope, hope for whats ahead, true music is rare nowadays, and i am greatful when i stumble upon it....

  • This is fantastic music, I like it

  • haha i believe there are many people in this world who dont the meaning of life.. is sad.. life , its not a game, its a test , we have one chance to pass. whoever reads this comment and know what im talking about. im sure life is not a gcse, we cant retake it.

  • whoa, timeless

  • ...beyond....

  • Incredible. He produces meaning beyond the capacity of words.

  • The very beautifull thing about this "masterpiece" is that it isn't a real song or music. It's one ride to a certain feeling or emotions. Even how simple this song may sound, it would take some time to get that specific language out of it. It's a one way story. You can't just sit behind a piano and spit these melodies out (it would make sense in music)

    Beautifull piece of work,

  • i cried

  • Hi, oh dear God how i was search for this, this is the base sampler of My Vision, from Seal

    Rock Dj xD

  • LOVELY. I don't recognize this one.

  • Only one word to describe... Amazing pure and simple. Now what I'm wondering is why can't all music be like this? oh what an impossible wish don't you think? Amazing video by the way, you did a really good job working the pictures with the music :)

  • 12 people dont know the meaning of life.

  • @SammzProductions they are justin bieber fans

  • How can people dislike such music? Guess they only heard the first 3 seconds

  • @SammzProductions they're 13 now!

  • @SammzProductions 7 000 000 000 people don't know the meaning of life

  • @brassss1 I do. But I'll never tell. You'll kick yourself when you figure it out. It was all so obvious!

  • @brassss1

    There are some people who know and in our heart of hearts we all know. It is so simple we seem to overlook it. Love is the reason.Nothing but Love in all to all.

  • @SammzProductions who does really and truly?

  • @SammzProductions actualy its 13 bitch

  • @SammzProductions make that 13.... hmmm

  • @SammzProductions Oh shut up you pretentious pomp

  • what is the name of the song?

  • @wick2107 I believe it is titled "Brooks was Here" from the Shawshank Redemption soundtrack.

  • @webworker7 yes.

  • @webworker7 thanks

  • This is Amazing Work.

  • Its amazing how such a simple piano arrangement accompanied with strings can dig so deep and be like a story telling event...what a fantastic arrangement

  • We live, we die. But in living we define ourselves. True enlightenment and peace is found inside you. What you do, day in day out, how you shape the world around you is what living is about. Every day is unique and should be cherished. It won't happen again, what will you do? Will you make a difference? Live and love and love living. Then you will have made your mark, on someone or something.

    Now listen to the music of Thomas Newman. :-)

  • @baltikaPS3

    You should become a writer, you just made a piece of art.

  • @baltikaPS3 Very well said. I am doing that now. simply marvelously said.

  • @baltikaPS3 I'm going to quote your meaningful quote.

  • @swtxwishes Thank you. But its not a quote I found, I wrote it myself.

  • @baltikaPS3 not everything tht shines is dimonds and stars...it can be a person's heart also..(very rare to find)

  • @baltikaPS3

    WTF

  • @baltikaPS3 Great words there, powerful stuff

  • @baltikaPS3 that's exactly what I was saying this morning!

  • I see art and music as the same thing. Both beautiful, personal, and both can tell a story in a way in which only you can understand fully. Thank god there is art and music, because without it, humanity would fail. Sadly, i think it already has ever since 'media' was invented. The media just lies and lies, but people are still willing to belive and pay for lies. They actually buy newspapers suited to them so they can hear what they want to hear, not what is happening. I'm 16 and i'm writing that

  • no comment

  • @olliet24 nice comment

  • Endless time in an endless sea of energy spirit of the heart spirit of the mind deepness in a world of flowing time

  • This night... I saw an airplane in the sky. It looked like a shooting star... and I wished just one thing.

    I wished that all these beautiful little moments in my life... the scent of the flowers, the beauty of the sun setting down, innocentwhite snowflakes as the first snow falls... that I could somehow share them with someone special... always...

  • "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

  • GOD HELP US

    PLEASE MY LORD

    STOP WAR, CRIMES , POVERTY , ABUSE, BOMBING, RAPING

    STOP IT

    i can't take it anymore

  • @persianiranforever Riiiiiight..... When are people like you going to learn that "God" ain't gonna save our ass, it's us people that have to deal with this crap we have on earth....

  • @trickstyle48

    that was irrelevant what you just said

    i do agree, this is we who make messes on earth but im talking about the people who are the victims of these its crimes and abuse . (INNOCENT PEOPLE)

  • @persianiranforever It doesn't matter who's involved, whether it be the innocent or the bad, we're all in the same boat, and only some of the rare good guys can do something about it, I'm just saying mate, it's grinds me whenever people are like this

  • lo adoro!

  • We live for but eighty years on a planet that has been for but 6 billion. Our bones will turn to dust on the land that will disappear under the oceans, and our words will be lost in echoes consumed by the valleys and hills. We have but seconds to live on the clock that makes up of all time and we spend these seconds squabbling amongst ourselves. These precious seconds should be used to learn, to play, to smile and to love. We will fade into the darkness, but at least leave some light behind

  • wow does this guy raifukumaru know how to party or what??!!!!!...lol

  • I'm not really into classical music, only emotional ones that make me feel something. I think thomas newman is my favourite classical musician though. His music has really touched me like no other piece has. xXsomeoneAnyoneXx thank you for posting :)

  • I believe this is "Brooks was here" from The Shawshank Redemption, but, I could be wrong.

  • This song is actualy called "Any other name"

  • @zutroy1 actually this piece is called "brooks was here" from shawshank redemption. "any other name" is another beautiful piece written by thomas newman using mostly the same instrumentation and style, but it is a different melody.

  • PARP!

    Sorry, just breaking wind, apparently this is the place for it @RaifukuMaru.

    Great track though!

  • PARP!

    Sorry, just breaking wind, apparently this is the place for it @RaifukuMaru.

    Great track though!

  • @Lozza10100101 Thank you, I am glad my words can help so many make a little more sense of an otherwise confusing world

  • Humanity does not need a God nor does it need some sort of divine light to guide it's way. Humanity needs one very simple thing, each other. Together we could be great, a testament to peace that would echo through the universe for an eternity, but divided we are nothing but history, history that fades like the very land we stand upon. Humanity is not 6 billion people, it is one organism that if placed together in equilibrium it would not only live a better tomorrow, but a better forever

  • @RaifukuMaru

    Its people like you that make the world better...

  • @RaifukuMaru Wow.. Your words are simply breathtaking. I am speechless of how wise you are. It IS people like you that change the world. Please, write more. When I read your words, I feel... Home. That's it. Thank you....

  • This was a powerful movie, the music takes me back there.

  • this song makes you look back at all the horrors of this world and makes us think, what have we done!

  • @raifukuMaru we are sheep of God he is my Shepard.

  • But how can man made music be so beautiful and perfect...when man is so imperfect..it has to come from somewhere beautiful and GOD is beautiful...

  • how the hell can something so simple be so powerfull (im talking bout thomas newmans little piano melodies). its making people spill their hearts out, just look at the two highest rated comments

  • Drop the God Jesus thing, this has fuck all to do with Religion this is a man with a gift to softly play our Heart strings and to send us to sleep he creates this Beautiful art thats touches people and gives them hope not god,not Jesus. Im not trying to slate any religous people is just angers me when they go on about it as if it as thanks to religion for this Beatiful art. Man made art and Music not god

  • @MusicisLife373 Thats your thoughts, dont slate others beliefs or outlets from where the feelings come from

  • @yermaw145 well it wasnt pointed at anyone in particular just my opinion and i like to share it on music which is my main passion in life didnt mean to offend you ^^

  • @MusicisLife373 Yeah Satan was a musician angel before man exists. But he wasn't either the creator. And yes, this is pure human music, just feelings, mental manipulation, but not spirit, and yes, the music is creation of God as he is our creator as he is creator of human inteligence and all talents, but it doesn't matter at all if human is not filled whit his Spirit.

  • @MusicisLife373 So I can have the most high feelings with this music, but I'm empty. Music is not all, Music is not life, I'm a musician, God is life, Jesus is life, out of him there is nothing, so I'm happy and secure into Him, and in Him I will not be dissapointed, Music is not God, Feelings are misleading

  • @NEHUSTAN7 yes you have summed up all that is wrong and deprieved about religion . i will tell you what man made bullshit religion is and i dont care what you think its my opinion religion is a excuss to get rid of death and lonleyness and all hate in life "oh ive done somethink bad and im going to die someday and there will be nothink after death so i best belevie in a false lie created by man to comfort me " Beleiving in god is the same as beleiving in santa claus... God doesnt exist my friend

  • @MusicisLife373 ALSO Religion is a man creation, yeah, but it don't means that God doesn't exists, so you have your god science, you have faith in something that is harder to believe, science is the trace of God and man is lost on the road looking for a sign

  • @NEHUSTAN7 so dont preach to me , cuse i will preach back, humans are all greedy and all full of both hate and love religion and beleiving in a god doesnt make that go away Science is the ony way forward for us

  • i was struck by your love, almost as if it were a bolt of lightening. it searched the world, found me and chose me out of the billions of women, whom are all beautiful, unlike me. your energy raced to my heart, pulsing through a million volts... then my control had been stolen and i unexpectedly fell...for you. ♥

  • his music takes me to another place.

  • I don't have any brilliant philosophical feelings to describe, but this song simply helps me weep.

  • How can people not like a man who touches our hearts and souls with his music?

    How can't we think about what we are doing to the world if we have so much wonderfull things in it to thank for?

    This man and his songs are sending us all a message.

    Please turn this world a better one for all of us to live in and our children to grow up in :)

  • It's comforting to wake up to this after a rough night of little sleep, helps me remember the sun is on it's way :)

    try it, wait for sunrise, and play this.

  • same style of his music can also be found as 'Resilience' from the Lemony Snicket's ASoUE soundtracks (which I think is better XD)

  • This is how my thoughts sound

  • sponge bob FTW

  • How do I respond? How could I possibly communicate what this feels like? I cannot, I will not. I have no words to describe what this does to me. I am transported, far, yet I am more close to home then at any point in my life. In my dreams I see my friends, I see days long past, and I am happy. In my dreams they are all smiling. May a peace come over you all. That is my wish.