[New-Poetry] Re: Music While Writing?

[David Graham]

Me too me too.  Jazz, classical, and other instrumental stuff,  
mostly.  Lyrics distract me.  And music can keep street noise and  
such from distracting me.

Very occasionally (more so when I was younger) I would put on Bob  
Dylan or some other wordy singer, and riff off of that.  But that's  
unusual now.  I've created a Pandora station that plays nothing but  
acoustic guitar instrumentals (Leo Kottke, Michael Hedges, Tony  
Rice), and I often like to let that play while scribbling in my journal.

Right now I'm typing to Gil Evans's *Out of the Cool*.  Before that  
it was Duke Ellington's *Piano Reflections*.



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On Feb 29, 2008, at 10:31 PM, AlMaginnes at aol.com wrote:

> As often as not. Usually jazz and not too loud. Since I couldn't  
> tell an A chord from an Amaj7th, I tend not to get too distracted  
> by that sort of thing. I have an ipod and I play that at a fairly  
> low volume and it keeps other, more immediate noises from seeping  
> in all the way.
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