Kanye West Quotes

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

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

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.

Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

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

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

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

I think we've all been in the middle of doing something we cared about, when someone coming in the room and saying 'hello' was annoying. I personally can understand that, as someone who tries to create.

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.

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

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

When I write I find a quiet place.

The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

There's no writer's block; there's only distraction.

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.

Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

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

I love silence. I seek and create it at every opportunity. I need it to work.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Sometimes the worst thing that can happen is, 'Oh, I'm on stage playing a song,' because you're daydreaming about something else, you're on autopilot. You have to fight that.

When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.