Lydia Lunch Quotes

Also, because people like to multitask, in a way if you've got a bit of music on in the background and the lyrical content is making you want to listen to it, then that would probably put you off the texting you wanted to do. I think people like things that just make that right kind of noise, but leave your brain free to do something else.

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

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

I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.

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.

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

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.

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.

Concentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

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.

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

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

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

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.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to reacquaint yourself with concentration. We all do.

I'm not very good at multi-tasking. Most people aren't, but they think they are. The mind is really better when you're really focused on one thing.

I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.

I'm not too easily distracted now I've had practice, but I write with nothing to look at. I used to rent an office that just had a view of a wall!

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I use music to focus, like an internal motor.

I literally cannot work without music.

When you in the studio you don't need everybody calling your phone telling you about what's going on outside the studio. I don't need those distractions.