Lee Ranaldo Quotes

I find it so easy to get distracted - I try not to do more than one thing at any one time.

I'm a person of whim, and easily distracted. I don't like multitasking. When I'm doing one thing, I like to do just that thing.

I won't deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

I can't do too much of one thing, or I get very distracted.

I have a short attention span. And when I'm in the middle of one thing, I'm then drawn to the next thing.

I don't get distracted easily. I'm very focused.

There are times in the game when you have lapses. It just means you're not as locked in as when you first get in or at the end of the game.

I think that we get so distracted with our smartphones... It takes your body and your brain time to switch between tasks. If we can focus on what we're doing, we'll be more productive at that task.

Twenty-five minutes is a long time to stay focused. It's really something I had to work on to go in there and not get complacent for 2 seconds or 5 seconds or 1 second. That's all it takes.

I've got no attention span.

The truth is I got rid of 100% of my vinyl in the '90s. All the vinyl I have is re-bought.

I don't have a background in music... and I have a short attention span. If you put me in the studio every day, I'm gonna get lost.

I always think of albums as the format. I think it's perfect. I don't think you can tamper with that. It's not just sound, the analog, which is so much richer. It's the format. You're constrained by just 45 minutes, and it's perfect to me. I don't want to listen to any more than, and I live and breathe music.

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.

You wouldn't read 'Anna Karenina' and try to work on the computer at the same time, would you?

When I was a teenager, I was mostly getting tapes and CDs, and somebody hipped me to the fact that you can get things on vinyl that are not necessarily available on any other fomat.

I think getting people's focus, getting people's attention on anything has never been harder, because the media has done everything in its power to try and dissolve people's attention, shift it round absolutely all the time.

One of the problems of modern society, or the post-Internet age, is that there are so many things bombarding us that we could care about. I think it's more important than ever to really get clear and focus on what's worth caring about and what's just noise or distraction.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly.

When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don't find something interesting, I can't concentrate.

Sometimes I have lapses of attention, and I can lose some points very quickly - that's been a big thing for him.

There's a warmth, obviously, with vinyl that you just don't get with CDs.

A record is kind of a piece of art itself, and it's such a tangible experience playing an LP end to end.

My biggest hurdle usually has to do with concentration. I have a tendency to kind of start working on something, and then, all of a sudden, I'll totally divert and do something totally different.