Driving music?

[Rachel Adams]

I don't think "driving music" makes sense. I am talking about the music that is good to listen to when you are driving. Does "suitable for" and "If I want silence" sound idiomatic?

"I like electronic and driving music, which is suitable for intensive training and fast driving. If I want silence, I listen to classical music. Jazz is also ideal for relaxation."

 

[Tarheel]

Perhaps: "While I'm driving I like to listen to something jazzy" (or something like that).

If you want silence, you most likely want to listen to nothing at all. Perhaps: "When I want something soothing and relaxing I listen to classical music" (or something like that).

 

[emsr2d2]

I have no problem with "driving music", used in the right context.

Whenever I make the 200-mile journey to Edinburgh to visit my parents, I listen to Meat Loaf all the way up in the car. It's great driving music.

 

[Rachel Adams]

Perhaps: "While I'm driving I like to listen to something jazzy" (or something like that).

If you want silence, you most likely want to listen to nothing at all. Perhaps: "When I want something soothing and relaxing I listen to classical music" (or something like that).

But does this sentence sound natural? Can I use it? I mean this one: "If I want silence, I listen to classical music." I mean "If I want silence" and "suitable for"?

 

[5jj]

Can I use it? I mean this one: "If I want silence, I listen to classical music."

No.

 

[emsr2d2]

No music is suitable if you want silence. Silence is the complete absence of sound.

 

[Rover_KE]

… and there’s a great deal of very noisy classical music.

 

[Tarheel]

@Rachel Adams You have now been told the same thing three different ways. (My mom used to say, "Stop being so stubborn, and do what I tell to do." )

I didn't say you can't call it "driving music". However, there is no such musical genre, so it could be anything.

 

[probus]

"She loves that driving beat
As she goes walking on down the street
Wham a lamma bam a lamma
Rock and roll is king."

Jeff Lynne, ELO