I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.
I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.
I listen to music constantly while writing.
I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadening.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
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.
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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