If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.
Because I'm pushing my body so hard already, the last thing I want to do is have music that's really too strong, in my head.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
I never listen to music when I write.
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
I like pop music, especially Crosby, Nash, Stills and Young, Stevie Wonder and Paul Simon - he's broken up with Art Garfunkel hasn't he? - but I can't study while pop music is playing.
I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
I can't listen to music while I'm doing something else. Well, unless I'm working out. But I, like, fall off the treadmill all the time if I'm listening to something that I like too much.
Normally when I read, I don't like music playing.
