When my friends play music I don’t really find appealing, I tune out and retreat to the endless cave of music in my head to drown out the sounds.

Because life is too short to listen to bad music.

There is so much good music out there I haven’t discovered, why waste precious time entertaining garbage that rapes the ears?

The impact of music can never be measured. It’s something you feel, experience and love or hate without logical reason.

Like most things in life, we do what we like to do, like who we like and enjoy what we feel is good. Regardless of genre, music is the same.

You wouldn’t waste time watching a bad movie, reading a horrible book or talking to someone you consider a total waste of air. Why give bad music the time of day?

When I hear of a new artist, I give each song 30 seconds. If it doesn’t grip me in that time, I don’t bother.

Nowadays, music has become so processed, that nothing stays with you.

We all remember the great legends of music, because their music is timeless. I reckon a few years from now, Pitbull will be lost in the annals of history. Does anyone really remember Ja Rule?

I lament all that time spent listening to that claptrap, because in that time, I could have discovered Avenged Sevenfold, Dashboard Confessional, Kasabian and Explosions in the Sky.

I didn’t hear of them until a few years later, because I wasted my time on Lifehouse.

If you think about your life in terms of minutes and seconds – which is how a song is measured – it all adds up to a lot of time spent doing not much.

We waste hours of our day on the road, or doing something randomly mundane… It’s up to us to make the best of that time. In the car, I listen to new music, music I love or audio books. I have come to enjoy cooking.

Filling that time we consider wasteful with something meaningful, awesome or doing something enjoyable would add up to a life less ordinary. In fact, if we all did carpe diem, we wouldn’t mourn a life wasted on the mundane.

This is why I don’t give bad music the time of day. Not only is it pointless to make Cobra Starship a part of my day, it’s downright silly to squander three minutes on something I wish I could forget.

Because each of those three minutes adds up to time frittered away for nothing.

The narrator in Fight Club says: “This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time.”

When it comes to music, regardless of music taste, use those minutes wisely. Music is the food of life.

Feed yourself what’s good for you.