In this chapter, I examine the close connection between music, human interactions, and ‘time’. Auditory gestalts, discussed in previous chapters, are compared with everyday methods of keeping time and organising social interactions. The active character of hearing echoes a patterned understanding for various other contexts of experience. Moreover, I offer a critique of philosophical approaches that limit the exemplary character of hearing to linguistic communication. In contrast, I refer to the work of Heraclitus, Goethe, and Langer, in which a patterned understanding of reality resounds. More specifically, I discuss music as something transient and ‘timeful’, suitable for facilitating a nondiscursive awareness of dynamic relationships. I also emphasise the importance of autonomous time management for well-being. Indeed, temporal structures determined by others, especially in social and political contexts, can be understood as attempts to reshape personal and collective identity. Here an ‘intact’ approach is needed to ensure personal autonomy as well as harmonious social coexistence.