Adam Mansbach Quotes

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

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 generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

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'm very fond of classical music, especially Mozart. I find it relaxes me and helps me concentrate.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

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 literally cannot work without music.

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

I listen to music constantly while writing.

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.

Peanut Butter Wolf is my relaxing music, my lunch music, my chilling music.

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.

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.

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

Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

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

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

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

I finally wasn't interested in writing music that played while actors talked.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

One thing that stays pretty consistent for all my jobs is, I listen to a lot of music while I'm working.

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.