Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

Night time really is the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone is asleep.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

I need complete silence when I write.

I'm a songwriter. I need silence to hear the melodies, so I don't fill the days with a lot of sound.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

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.

I write best late at night, when everyone in the house has gone to bed. There's something magical about that late night silence that appeals to me.

When I write I find a quiet place.

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 work late at night. I'm awake and nobody bothers me. It's quiet and things come and talk to me in the silence.

I like working in silence.

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

Most of my work is done when everyone else is asleep.

My mind starts to work creatively past 10 P.M. or 11 P.M. - all of a sudden there's silence and my head starts going.

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.

If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond 'the office.' If they do say the office, they'll include a qualifier such as 'super-early in the morning before anyone gets in,' or 'I stay late at night after everyone's left,' or 'I sneak in on the weekend.'

I'm trying to stay focused on what I'm doing. I don't want a whole lot of things going on - people to call back, or text messages or whatever. I chill out, relax a little bit, and then I don't have those issues.

I don't really start writing until later in the night. I'm a night owl.

I really love the dark of the night. It helps me to concentrate.

I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

I find I can get so much done between midnight and 4 a.m. Everything is quiet, no one is disturbing me, and if I go to bed then, I just lie awake thinking of ideas. They are very creative hours for me. One night a week I crash out, though.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.