Another Quote by Albert Murray

I believe that writing on music is experienced inside your head, is not a physically present in the world, it has a different kind…

— Robert Christgau

I never listen to music when I write. It's too much of a distraction.

— Katie Kitamura

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to…

— Erik Larson

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart…

— Tim Gane

For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain…

— John Hodgman

Writing music is something very natural... this is the way to communicate with other people.

— Krzysztof Penderecki

I'd say writing songs is, for me, as much playing the tape recorder as it is playing guitar or writing words.

— J. J. Cale

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

— Brian McKnight

Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if…

— Ronnie Montrose

Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one's going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest.…

— Giveon

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the…

— Philip Pullman

Writing music is just like writing a book.

— Billie Eilish