To listen or not to listen to music!

Some musicians make the choice to "not listen to music".
Maybe not all kind of music but music that
affects them to much to find their own style.
For me that´s impossible. I listen to all kind of music
and I really enjoy doing it.
But when the question came up to me the first time,
I really reflected over how it could be
not to listen to my favorite music.
Actually I tested that for a while
but I found out that I must have the
inspiration from different kind of music.

My music is a summary of everything
I´ll listen to and everyone I have been
played with during the years.
One important aspect in this is that you must
not listen to just one or a few artists,
you must listen to everything.
So.....for me the choice was to listen
to everything because I need the new and old stuff
from my CD collection, to get my inspiration.