While some people want or need total silence while they are studying, working, or doing whatever else, other people tend to be more productive and less distracted when they have some sort of background noise.
Whether a game uses a rudimentary combination of bleeps and bloops or chooses to use an entire orchestra, the sounds and music of games adds to the overall feel and addictiveness of them and is really half the fun.
If you spoke to anyone within the industry a decade ago they would have laughed at your for trying to produce anything outside of a music studio, but with the launch of Apple’s ever-successful and easy-to-use GarageBand, a whole new wave of people started trying their hand at producing and DJing.
We’ve ran numerous articles on this site explaining the virtues of learning a musical instrument and where to find the best resources to do so, but it is always important to remember is that music should be fun.