Music Will Be The Death Of Me.

I really love listening to music while I write---it can set the mood to a scene, and it also drowns out the dreadful sound of the fans beneath my laptop. BUT when I do listen to music, I start to sing along and do a little shuffle dance thing.



And then there was something that a teacher had told me, "the best work he'd seen a student do, was whilst they were listening to Mozart." I might be wrong on the composer, but it was along the lines of one of those classical guys, he was also speaking about an art student--would it be the same for a writer?



I haven't done any writing whilst listening to classical music yet, so I was wondering where you stand on listening to music whilst writing, because I've found that I write better when I'm not listening to any music at all. I'm also a lot quicker because my thoughts aren't jumbled with lyrics which I'm usually lip syncing along to. So maybe I'll try and cut down on music, but not too much, because that would be the death of me. (I added that last part for effect--like when you're watching a film and one of the actors says the title of the film, it send tingles down my spine.)



Oh, and don't you like the picture--I nabbed it from Google, it looks pretty authentic as well, and goes nicely with the classical composer theme. Have any of you listened to classical music whilst writing? I suppose it could work--it has no lyrics to distract you with, so I guess it's mood food.



-Joseph.