Evaluation absent of personal choice!

"...there is a connection between the enjoyment derived from listening to music and the standards by which music is evaluated,it is important for me to stress that the connection is impersonal rather than personal. No musical work is simply good because 'I like it', for any 'I'."

Since reading this, the question that filled my mind was, can someone really not be biased when listening to music?" I mean we are in a day and age in which even professionals have to know who did the work before they listen to it. I know Davies implies that a person can not like a piece of music but listen to it anyway to waste time, or a person can deem a piece of music as worthy, but not like it; but come on is this for real? I know when I listen to a song that doesn't interest me, I hear it but I don't listen to it. I am not able to sit and actually listen to what is playing and appreciate it, yet alone evaluate it. I just hear it as some sort of background noise; and when someone asks me what I thought about it I am put on the spot because I didn't listen.

So as far as evaluation goes can we trust these "professional evaluators" to say what is worth listening to and what isn't? I don't think music can be absent personal preference, even if one tries not to be biased. People like what they like, and I don't think evaluations of music should be trusted due to the fact that outside association with something personal, music is just there. Music is waiting to use people and be interpreted through and by people. People live and listen to music, hmm I guess I am answering my own question while I blog. Now that I think of what Davies is trying to get across in his chapter and what I learned from reading my book for the book review, I think I understand. If we look at music as one entity in itself, separate of genres and elements, separate of characteristics that makes each musical piece different from another, we are just left with art. I guess there are skilled evaluators who are able to appreciate and accept music outside of what makes it up and just takes music for what it is. Hmm... this is a lot to think about. So my question is..What do you think?