Speaking from a musician's standpoint:
Usually as a creator, your influence is to make the music that you hear in your head.
You may like, even love, a lot of music but simply not have the building blocks in your brain to be able to create it, and/or you may simply gravitate to certain sounds and elements, or there may be a disparity between the listening and the playing of certain styles.
For example, I adore Ambient Psytrance like Shpongle. But in terms of what I like to play, I have the most fun with funk, blues, or metal styles, where my interaction with the instrument is more direct, more rythmic. I have greater control over the sound of a guitar when I'm taking it back to basics and making it scream with just some distortion and volume.
On the contrary, if I use my guitar to make an ambient sound, I feel like the effects pedals and plugins I'm using to create that sound, are doing the work instead of me, and I get bored. The same applies if I'm playing something very repetitive, so I don't tend to be able to create in my head or with my hands, approximations or compositions that utilise or rely on those elements of psytrance or ambient music.
Make sense?
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