Listening to Music

Something I'm not sure if animators have talked about -- does listening to music while you animate degrade the quality of your work? Non-lipsync'd work, of course. I've often wondered this. Typically, I try not to, unless I'm animating something that's based almost entirely on the physical properties of something else (or is otherwise easy to animate). For example, the wrist and fingers. When I'm figuring out timings and placements for the core parts of the body, I'm too scare to. But man, it gets boring otherwise. I have to listen to something!