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Similar to your situation, but a former concert violinist with music training... cafe whitenoise and rain work best for me. :)

Just don't start composing rain and white noise or you can't listen to that either ;)

Also a musician. I have a similar problem - I just get an urge to write music when I hear something new that is really good. When I'm working I make sure to only listen to music I already know really well so it isn't too distracting.

Ditto. I've a go-to playlist for work that is repetitive music I don't really like but don't find too offensive - Enigma's back catalogue. I used to do the same with a movie soundtrack but it was too interesting.