This is a somewhat disingenuous response in that music is not prose. Music offers a very different emotional responses to books. What you ask is similar to asking whether I would repeat an order of a meal that I enjoyed because I was aware of how it tasted. Very different senses are involved. If you reduced music to simply lyrics, which would make it a form of poetry, then yes, I would not wish to listen again. Music is far more than lyrics, it soothes. relaxes, encourages, entertains. It connects with the soul.

I listen to music for several hours of every day. I love music. I actually carry one of the old fashioned iPods, the 160GB mini-brick. I also have a 128GB iPhone about half filled with music as a back-up. I don’t function very well without music. I am renowned for playing “loud” music when I am involved in creative writing — not so much when I am merely editing. My iPod/iTunes records show that I repeatedly play close to twelve thousand songs, old Rock & Jazz from the forties (in the case of jazz) to the ’80s with rock. I know the lyrics to every one of those songs, in either English or French. I like French rock as well as English. (French Grandmother.) Knowing the lyrics does not detract from my enjoyment of those songs. Currently I am playing ’50s jazz. Later this evening I will probably switch to ‘70s rock/Pop as I haven’t played that era for a while.