Andrea Bocelli said a few years ago that "there was too much music", his main point being that with the advent of music in so many places around us, the value of music was being diluted, that the power of music was being lost in the minutiae of every day life. He was right, and he was wrong.
He was right in that we can lose track of the music so it literally disappears, I suspect I am not the only one to start playing an album, get engrossed in work and realise later that the album stopped playing, all I actually heard were the opening minutes of the first track.
And he was wrong, because there a moments, too few for me lately but, there are moments when I can listen to a piece of music and just get lost in it, and come away from it feeling a whole lot better than I did beforehand.
There was a friend, back in the day, that I was always a tad jealous of, he had a sort of photographic memory, only it was for sound rather than data, he claimed that he only had to hear a song once and he could recreate the whole thing in his head at any time. No proof available of course, except anecdotal, but having seen him "lost" in the music many times I would hazard the opinion he was experiencing the same I do, only I actually have to hear it every time.
My father had many talents, sadly most were immoral or illegal, but he could hear a song once, and then play it on the piano well enough that you could sing along to it, a sort of pre-karaoke karaoke if you will.
