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I don't listen to music when designing. We create in silence. I go through a torturous process because everything has to be precise and right.

— Francisco Costa

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.

— Yo-Yo Ma

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

— Jeff Mangum

My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians.

— Robert Moog

I can only speak for myself - there were times when I just wasn't inspired by creating music.

— Common

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.

— Enya

I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't.

— Bruce Springsteen

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

— Jane Siberry

Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.

— Marianne Wiggins

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Yigal Azrouel

The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.

— Moby