I think that the distance between planets would make it nearly impossible to find life elsewhere, although I do believe it exists. Since many planets are thousands, if not millions of light-years away, and nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, even if an extraterrestrial race had spaceships that could travel the speed of light, it would take them thousands if not millions of years to get from one inhabited planet to another.
Of course the science fiction fan in me wants to meet these aliens! And me being me, I want to know what extraterrestrial music sounds like!