Alan Moore Quotes

I never listen to music when I write.

I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.

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

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block.

While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.

When really writing I'm not a good friend. Because writing disorganizes the social self, you become atomized. It scrambles you, sometimes to the point that I'm incapable of speech. I feel that if I start speaking, I'll lose the writing, like getting off the treadmill.

I always have music playing in my studio when I design. It really gets me in the mood and allows me to focus.

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.

I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.

I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.

It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.

I'm not in control of my muse. My muse does all the work.

A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

I never listen to music when I'm writing.

When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.

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

I find that when I write, I need things to be quiet, but when I design, I can't bear it if it's quiet.

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

I can't write when it's silent. But the music can't have lyrics.

I can't distract myself enough here, for sketches to a new opera are constantly buzzing around in my head, to the extent that I need all my strength to wrest myself from them.

I wrote 'Show Me the Way' in the morning and wrote 'Baby, I Love Your Way' in the afternoon of the same day. I've been trying to figure out what I ate for breakfast that morning ever since!

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.