We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
I've never known how to read music in my life.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.