Defining what is music is always controversial. What is good music, a personal choice. What is great music, something only the passing of time will decide. It may be important to listen to some types of music that you don't like to increase your facility to enjoy music more and more of it. 

Listening to Rap, Hip Hop, Death Metal and Opera is challenging. I still do it, because every once in a while you'll hear  something you like. Not necessarily the whole song, but a certain sound or group of sounds can be appealing.  Country music is usually sappy, but Johnny Cash is awesome. Opera can make a person cringe and Santa Maria can draw rivers of tears. 


What ever you enjoy, take some time to suffer through what you think you don't like. Pretend it's like eating your vegetables and it's good for you. I like vegetables now, I like them roasted with butter and Parmigiana, but I still like them. 

In the video below was a man that was a pioneer in the music world, he espoused my idea years ahead of me and to a level I have yet to appreciate. How great a world it would be if you could find beauty and pleasure  from all sounds,  like John Cage obviously does. 








This dude plays cacti and plants!