Music Concentration Quotes

I listen to music deeply and seriously for at least an hour or two a day.

Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.

I cannot work and listen to Wagner at the same time, nor Mahler, nor Beethoven's late quartets. I enjoy listening to Chopin's piano music when I work.

I'm super serious about music. That's, like, the only thing I'm serious about.

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

It's hard to get someone to sit down and listen to an album in its entirety.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

Music for me, it demands full concentration.

When you're concentrating on just the music, you're not thinking about anything else.

The whole idea is preserving the music and the art and not having us and our faces and our individual characters distract from that. That was the original idea, and now it's really become part of what Tool is. It has allowed us to really concentrate on our music and our show.