I've been musical for as long as I can remember which was about 2. I always have songs and jingles running through my head. Nearly every memory is tied to a song. Nearly every dream is tied to a song. I would always think of phrases and then repeat them later set to a jingle.
Whenever I would be around people, it was like the living in the bubble feeling, but music would be playing in my head and the people around me would "go" with that music with the things they did. It used to make me feel embarassed but I probably just had some traits of a choreographer. I also look at pictures and they sometimes look alive and moving and set to music.
My dad's side of the family has many musicians, one who built his own bass guitar from a toilet seat because he was a big NT joker. I followed suit and had piano lessons for a few years, then started playing bass and a few years later built my own 6 string fretless from scratch. Maybe 6 years ago I started on the organ/synthesizer.
I can't stand music too loud. Turn it up a bit sometimes for better dynamics but not too much. I also don't like music that is too jumbled, a prime example is music that has a wall of rhythm guitar drowning out everything. I like when I can hear everything. Smooth 70s, a lot of 80s, some 90s but then as with everything else it feels like the world turns into soup after 2000. But I do like most country. Most of my collection is 80s females who rock, like Belinda Carlisle, Amiee Mann, Bangles, Cyndi Lauper, Tiffany, Stevie Nicks. But I've always had a special place for Wilson Phillips, where something amazing in their voices got me through the toughest years of high school. But I also can't resist the sound of a gritty greasy Hammond B3 overdriven thru a Leslie 122, a growling fretless bass, the ballsy sound of a Spector bass (Queensryche, etc.), a good synth part.
One of my favorites is vocal smooth jazz. I used to call it black space music, where you can feel the space between the notes. In high school if listening at night I would see colors and patterns in the black space. (And this was before the days of cable/satellite radio or screensavers or anything that is similar nowadays.)
I like the old tech too. I have hundreds and hundreds of cassettes and some records. It seems to capture the feel of the old days better. It's not the same without the pops and crackle, or the tape hiss. Digital just sounds unnaturally clean and sterile. But I do have a lot of CDs because cassettes wear out or get damaged easier. I don't have an IPOD or digital collection.
I can listen to even a favorite song hundreds of times for years or decades and still barely remember any of the words. But I can remember the parts of most of the instruments. To me songs evoke a feeling not by the words but by their overall sound or key or both. I wasn't born with perfect pitch but I trained myself to be very good at it once, then other responsibilities took over. Every key does have a feeling to it.