It's a bit arrogant to assume that your creative process is everyone's creative process. I sometimes need silence for periods of intense concentration, but tha

It's a bit arrogant to assume that your creative process is everyone's creative process. I sometimes need silence for periods of intense concentration, but that's really not sustainable for me and more often I need collaboration to create, bouncing ideas off other people and getting feedback and additional ideas. This doesn't work as well for really intricate sorts of creativity, but the reality is that, for me, the majority of creativity isn't that. I particularly had to chuckle when the OP mentions music. Sure, they don't directly say it gets created in silence, but they do say it happens in isolation, which is true in some cases, but just isn't true for the vast majority of bands. Even creation which has little to do with sound, such as novel-writing, is often done with sound and collaboration: if you read enough about writing you'll discover that many novelists seek other novelists to discuss ideas with, or you'll find that certain novels were written while listening to certain albums. Of course, some creation does happen in silence and isolation.