[lgeorget]

I know many people who say they can't live without music, cannot work or just be around home without listening to something. I understand their experience but I can't relate at all. It's not that I don't like music or that I'm particularly sensitive to noise but I practically never listen to music I put myself. I feel like I could just live without it completely.

[bojan]

Since I have children I almost never listen to music. The kids are such a sensory overload that, when I get a moment of silence alone, I don't want to ruin it with sound.

[BLKNSLVR]

Depending on the age of your children, you should play music to introduce them to it. Some of my best memories from when my kids were young is of them dancing around uncontrollably to In The Hall of the Mountain King and Hergest Ridge (a particular section). They loved it. It activates something.

They need to know there's more out there than The Wiggles.

[recursive]

I have kids. When I get a moment alone, I find that's a perfect opportunity to do some high quality listening without interruption.

[farmeroy]

SO I worked as a professional musician for over a decade before a career change to software development... and since that change, the act of _listening_ to music has completely disappeared from my life. I cannot work or study with music on, I do not put music on when I'm home alone, I do not listen to music when driving... And for many years I gave up completely playing music even as a hobby. So although for most of my life I would have been shocked that someone could entertain the idea of living without music, I am actually now more shocked that people can do things like study or program with music on at all. In all that time though I was always impressed and surprised by what people would consider music :D

[financypants]

To a further extent, I know people who can't meditate or just stare at a wall for a few minutes, they must always be working or consuming or engaged in something

[SoftTalker]

For me it depends on my mood. Sometimes I like to have background music going, sometimes I enjoy silence.

[TechDebtDevin]

I'm like this but replace music with audiobooks/podcasts..