Going Days Without Music
 

This website consists of hardcore music lovers who listen to music nonstop (correct me if I'm wrong). Am I the only one who can go a day without it, maybe two at the most?
Sometimes I think this is necessary to clear your listening pallet.

I can go a real long time without listening to anything. The longest for me was maybe 2 months. That was over the course of a summer - it's really hard for me to go without listening to any kind of music for even a day during the school year, since I study music.

I've gone some days without listening to music. I listen to so much heavy music lately that sometimes I do need a rest. But thinking about life without music would be severely depressing. I feed off it way too much.

heck no I listen to music everyday

heck thanks to the internet I discover at least 1 new band or song I like every day

Music's therapeutic for me. I always need to be listening to a record, it can never be silent.

I hardly go a day without listening to music. Sometimes maybe it's just a bit of radio while commuting, or a little bit of shuffling at home in the evening. That's on days that I'm really swamped at work without much heads-down time (too many meetings and such) or on a weekend if I'm out doing things. It bothers me if I had intended to listen to certain albums, because I always have in mind what I might want to listen to most days.

However, it is kind of a good cleanse sometimes to take a break. I honestly wish I could take a break for a week or something and not pay attention to music, message boards, discovering, cataloging, etc. I could hear music passively, but not intentionally.

I go through phases where I take a bit of a break from music and mostly listen to podcasts and talk radio. During those times I sometimes will go a few days without listening to music at all.

I'm pretty sure a few of us don't listen to music at all.

I have a break in the weekend sometimes because I listen to music anytime I'm out during the week and during class. I haven't been able to update my last.fm since my computer has had a new OS put in it. I will have to redo all that process, but have to send my computer back again for more repairs UGHHH.

Same for me. There are times that all my music, and everything new I hear, bores me to death. Sometimes I stop for about a week, waiting for my interest to return.

Nope, I can't do it. If I ever get to the point where I need a break from certain genres I will just turn to soundtracks or the limited classical collection that I have but other than that. I don't stop listening to music even while I'm away. I always have my mp3 player and a way to charge it.

I at least listen to music every day, even if only one song.

There arw certain times though I cannot be without music. One of those times is when driving. Any extended silence really is one I fill with music. If I can't get to any, I listen in my own head.

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I pretty much have to hear music at least once a day, even if it's only for review purposes. TBH if I'm not playing music I'm humming/singing in my mind, or singing to my cat Eddie, who hates it. But yeah, gotta have music one way or t'other!

Nah, I'm always listening to music unless:

1) I'm in classes
2) I'm in a situation (party, gathering, cookout, etc) where I'm socializing (I guess at that point there is usually music in the background)
3) I'm working
4) I'm sleeping

Other than that, I've got my 160GB iPod on hand with my headphones and I'm in my own world.

If I am by myself say at work or walking home, I need to listen to music, it helps to drown out other people's noise

I would kill my self

I can't recall the last time I went a day without any music.

I hope I never have to.

A day without music is a day wasted :)

I can't live a day without Music. I'm seriously surrounded by it - Classic to seriously worthless, catchy to experimental, it's all around me, period. I also have too many books that remind me of my love of Music. I can't stay away from it, even from DVDs.

If I had a day without it, I would think there's something wrong with me.

Is it even possible to not hear music for an entire day without sleeping througj it or never turning on the television/leaving the house?

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I listen to music everyday. Sometimes I take a break from it, I enjoy silence as well. When I get sick (with the flu or a sinus headache) then I'll go without music for maybe a day or two. However I can't say how long I went without music because of boredom or lack of interest with it.

Nope. We have an ipod dock at work that is continuously on for 12 hours and working five days means I count myself lucky that we don't do local radio just to fill the day and although I do like long periods of silence to read or I am too busy doing housework etc to have music on, it always ends up that there isn't a day that goes by without music.

Having a break from your own music collection is always good though and I try at least once a week to just dedicate a day listening to new stuff (which just happens to be today!).

Music has been around me since I can remember and that will never change for better or worse.

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@Jham Leeman: If you dont mind me asking what do you do?

If I'm hung over, I don't wanna hear anything. Be it music, noise, the annoying chatter of my GF blabbering, or birds chirping... especially birds chirping. It usually goes away by lunchtime, and I'm ready to rock. The only time I've ever gone days without music was when I was doing field exercises in the Army. Hated it.

I find silence can be as interesting as music sometimes.

I try to spend an hour a day listening to new music I haven't heard before. It's hard to keep up with the deluge of new releases that come out each week. There are still thousands of songs in my music collection that I've never given a full playing to.

Things were easier when I only listened to reggae music and it was possible to keep up with the new releases. Over the past couple of decades I've become more a generalist and I try to keep track of the latest music from nearly every musical genre. It's an impossible task to stay current on so many varieties of contemporary music. I'm still finding some excellent album releases from 2011 & 2012 that I didn't have time to listen to the first time around.

I don't like being constantly inundated with music, at all.

I guess you're not a fan of nature.

Ever been in a Zero DB Chamber? It's nice and quiet, but it can get to you after a while unless you're under control of your chakra's.

Yeah I've heard about those, I suffer a little from tinnitus from birth so I'm not going anywhere near one of those.

Ooh, ouch. Yeah that wouldn't be prudent.

Oh no, I am a huge fan of nature.




Or what about this:



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I'm a chef.

No ****! Me too. You happen to know of a good tri-stone for around a hundred or less? I really need a stone of my own, especially being a knife collector.

Eh? I don't understand how you think the only way one could go a day without music would be to stay inside (and not use the boob tube). Nature is completely devoid of music.

I was giving a general example, not stating that the only way was to sit inside with the television off...

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Hm, I never really thought about it before, but I don't think I can go without listening to music for very long. I mean, whenever I play a handheld game, or an online game, I need to have some music playing and I have 3 big ass cases of my brother's albums by my computer everyday, and this is basically Powerstars Central. I got everything. CD's, CD Player, 3DS, computer, Beatles Boxset, etc. I mean, music totally overpowers my house. Thanks for this thought-provoking thread.

I love to listen the musics and hardly can I pass a day without listerning

What are musics?

That is the one grammatical error you chose to focus on in the whole thing?

The guy lives in Tanzania, I doubt that English is his first language.


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When work is crazy busy I may go a day, possibly two days, without listening to music. But that's pretty rare - normally after a day off from my music addiction I need to get back and start enjoying again.