Jarvis Cocker Quotes

I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision.

I don't like to listen to music while I'm working.

I used to listen to 'Woman's Hour' every morning, but I've discovered that I can't have words on when I'm working.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

I need to have something else going on. I'm able to write a lot if I have an episode of 'Friday Night Lights' going on my computer.

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

If you try to multitask in the classic sense of doing two things at once, what you end up doing is quasi-tasking. It's like being with children. You have to give it your full attention for however much time you have, and then you have to give something else your full attention.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

Task switching is hard because we do not control what is on our mind. Despite our efforts, the original task continues to occupy our mental bandwidth. Although we can control where our time goes, we cannot fully control how our bandwidth is allocated.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time.

I can multitask like crazy. I'm riddled with ADD - a blessing and a curse.

While I'm working, I stick with music that won't distract me - the dub stylings of Scientist and King Tubby, maybe some Beethoven string quartets.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

Some people think they are concentrating when they're merely worrying.

There's no such thing as multitasking.

I didn't really listen to music when I was doing homework or when I - when I work on a script. I tend to drift to NPR and news.

I think people who multitask pay a huge price. They think they're being extra productive, and I think when you multitask so much you don't have time to think about anything deeply, you are giving the world an advantage you shouldn't do, and practically everybody is drifting into that mistake.

I literally cannot work without music.

I've tried writing with music on, but I find it distracting.