Daniel Alarcon Quotes

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

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

I listen to music constantly while writing.

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

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.

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

I find that I can't work and listen to radio - either I find I don't like it and it distracts me, or I do like it and I want to listen to it.

I often find that having an idea in my head prevents me from doing something else. Working is therefore a way of getting rid of an idea.

I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.

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.

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.

While you're writing, you can't concentrate nearly as well on what the speaker is saying.

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

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

I write while listening to music, mostly because the world beyond my headphones is too chaotic.

I multitask and always have the TV on in the background. If I need to focus, I generally have to turn off the TV.

When I write, I try to turn my Internet off so I can't procrastinate through the Internet, but then I just get deeply involved in whatever I have just on my computer.

The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each.

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

I'll read anything. In fact, I'll read while I'm doing other things, which is not a good idea.

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 have ADD or something. Even when I am doing something, it's me on the computer, I'm painting and I'm writing music. I have to rotate what I'm doing every 15 minutes.

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.