Have you ever gone a really long time without listening to music?

Doing it again almost seems like a chore until you start listening. At that point, it becomes the most pleasurable activity imaginable. 

When you’re studying music professionally, it all becomes so clinical you forget how to enjoy it. 

It’s like studying the human body for medicine and somehow losing the ability to appreciate its beauty. Instead, you see chemical reactions, a skeletal structure, and an organ meant for feeding. 

Studying music can have the same effect. Only when I stepped away from it for a while did I learn to enjoy it again.