I never cared for the snobbery that comes from all sides of music. I'll go to Heavy Metal forums right after leaving a Classical forum and hear how their genre is the elite.
I'll listen to Stravinsky and House of Pain in the same sitting.
You know you love music when the thought of naming the best musician or biggest influence in music is a joke to you.
I like Korn just as much as I like Rimsky-Korsakov. I look at Ravel in the same light as I look at Duke Ellington.
What I do on a daily basis is search everywhere for music. I find I become bored if I stick to the same 10 musicians/composers. I feel truly blessed when I put on an album and it speaks to me. I feel privileged to hear something new.
I even think the techno crowd has genius to offer. Music shouldn't be governed. It's art.
We all try to put a stamp on something when we like it and say: "This is good music, that crap you're listening to is awful."