Why don't we tire of music?

A book your reading someone elses story with effort through purposeful information and back story imbedded. It consumes greater time and like life has longer periods of less excitement.

Music is easily transformative to sharing that emotion and or tying it to a period or incident relevent to the individuals listening. Simply easier to relate it's emotion consiously and subcounciously as if our own. Like a drug it seems to quickly swing a mood around, your energy and in best case scenarios...embelishes an already natural high...

I find a book is an escape from ourselves where a song is often in the context older songs , like comfort food for the soul. New music before it ages is a necassary drug to keep moving forward ....

Music is instant gratification in short fleeting moments with less of the malaise of life and books have inherently within them.

Its not that surprising. Read a good book about your favorite band ...or...put a soundtrack to it and see them live with a few friends and thousands of strangers..now it's imbedded in you... short in duration so potent with emotion and energy...like many of the best things in life...

As has2be says, yeah it seems most folks regard music as comfort food. Putting it another way, while there are certainly a good deal of adventurous listeners, most listeners aren't. And yeah, that's perfectly OK. I gotta say, though, that I do get my share of cheap chuckles out of posters whose tastes don't seem to stretch much further than Led Zeppelin.

As others have mentioned its the emotional connection, but I can also get into technical aspects, performance of players as well as audio system.

And I do get tired of hearing same music, my music preferences have evolved to stream of consciousness listening sessions that stretch through nearly every genre conceived by humans.

Who says?

Good question.

I remember reading that James Joyce once sought acknowledgent amongst close friends that his famous novel Ulysses was as good as a work of music.

He didn't get it.

What about that Nietzsche quote?

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

It would seem as if there is something almost supernatural about the power of music and it's ability to influence the human mind.

Perhaps it's better if we never find out just what it is?