I can't concentrate if I hear a song/music. It totally distracts me from doing my work. Do any of you feel the same way?
 
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No, and my wife hates the fact that I can listen to 2 at once... she says it distracts her.
 
 

I'm concentrating on the music I'm working on , seems if you were listening to something else it would distract from the piece or feel of what your working on. I'm generally listening to and auditioning etc what I'm working on.

Heck, I'm ADHD and work better with distractions going on everywhere.  I've been known to have music playing, while eating, reading and having a (muted) sports game on the TV...
 
So, what were we talking about anyway???   Hey, SQUIRREL!!!

Some times........
If I am working in the garage.....Yes
If I am doing accounting......no
 
If I am at my 9 to 5 ........err sometimes....
 
I guess it all depends.........(and I am not over 65 ......depends!!!!)
 
Clifford

I found myself thinking more about the changes
while riding my Ultra Classic so no music when I ride now...no stereo on my Softail :)
 
When it is on while I'm working it becomes background noise.
It fades in and out much like my attention span.

Hi,
 
Not any more.
 
I think I have either heard too much music, or I have lost the taste for listening to a lot of music ...too much of it is not satisfying anymore, and I get tired of the conventional same thing over and over and over again, and people trying to reinvent the same wheel and thinking a new lyric or different bridge, will make it better! You already know my feelings on a lot of things, and you can read them on the reivews I post here ... that hopefully gets an ear or two ... not that you have to listen to it, or appreciate it like I do.
 
I, however, have not heard all the music that I hear inside my head ... there are ... STILL ... about 3 or 4 different sounds or "things"  ... not sure what they are ... that I hear that I kind still search for, but in general, I'm almost convinced that the only music I can find that matters these days and the rest of my time, is ... inside me ... and not outside! What I don't know is if this is a synthesizer sound, or some kind of other instrument possibility that I am not aware of, or have seen, or found. It has a lot of words, and a couple of stories associated with it, so yeah ... I would like to find it! Someday! Or it will be lost.
 
Now you know one of the most important reasons why weird sounds, experimental stuff and other weirdness is so important to me! It's the only thing that separates me from "what I know", enough to find out something else ... out there ... somewhere ... if that is the case!
 

No.  But I do whistle.

I have to focus on only one thing. I'm absolutely incapable of doing two things at once. One thing at a time frequently is too much of a strain. If I have music on in the background, I am more useless than usual. Conversations, noise from the TV, squirrels, and excessive groaning from the dungeon are highly distracting.

I work best in complete isolation and silence. I also do my best napping that way. There may be relationship between those two activities.

Hi,
 
More on UB's take.
 
I'm a visual person ... thus, writing something requires enough attention to be able to describe it, and bring it to life in words, or what not.
 
With that said, in the early days, it was music, that brought about the visuals, until the day I realized that the majority of visuals is about my "seeing", and NOT the music itself, although a person, a song, a set of words, an expression, can trigger a set of events that brings about a bunch of visuals!
 
As I get older, my inclination is to write, what I hear and see, and more often than not, this means ... I have to pay attention to what it is I see or hear, and (obviously) the better the attention span, the better this comes through, and the wording satisfies a lot more for me. Thus, music on the outside, or anything else, tends to distract from things.
 
Sidebar: Acting, in the end, is about concentration. Teaching the actor to "communicate" with the person they are with, and this is almost the same thing as what we discuss here ... you communicate with the "person" you are talking to ... which would be your imagination, or the actor across from you, or the musician you are playing with. In music, I doubt that this is harder than any other craft, and the parallels are the same. In other words, you can not be paying attention to the idea of rock'n'roll ... you have to stay with the player/s you are focused with ... which sometimes might be this person, other times another person ... but the day the piece of music "grows up" is the day that you play ... for the song, and when you get done, you don't even remember that you were tied to the drummer for 5 seconds, and the guitar for 15 seconds and what not ... which is one of the reasons, why so many DAW's are hurting people that are trying to learn to create/compose songs and other pieces of music ... you end up concerned with the metronome, instead of concentrating on the full of the visual of the music, and at that point ... the beauty of the music begins falling apar -- interrupted and influenced by externals ... just like UB states, and I do as well.
 
I've written about this, including exercises that can help you learn these things better, regardless of which artistic endeavor you are working on ... this is about "YOU", and not the music, the paints or the pen, or the arts, or the computer! When you have that perspective clear, the rest is fun and easy!