I absolutely love music myself but my mother has no interest whatsoever ina any form of music and i really cant see that she has suffered because of this. So for me no music would be torture, for my mum it would make no difference.
My mum even went to Bob Dylans famous Manchester Free Trade Hall gig (The Judas gig) and even that pivotal event had no effect on her, she only went cos my dad insisted. In fact, extending that i find it ironic that the only gigs that i know of my mum going to i would have killed to be at and she couldn't have cared less and would rather have been elsewhere (the other one was Cream at their peak)