>>22105
>>19644
This really differs for each person and each skill. It could also be that you're more directed by auditory sense, meaning that music would make your brain go off on a tangent of only being able to think about the patterns in the music. Some people just use it as a rhythm to work along to.
If I'm brainstorming I might pick a few specific tracks that I feel get the brain juices flowing, maybe classical or Nujubes instrumentals...but nothing with vocals, I can't think with vocals in music...mostly because they're too sudden and the unexpected speech kills my train of thought.
I can listen to fast music when coding and it helps my productivity a shit load, but if I'm drawing there's only a very small scope of music I can listen to that will benefit my work (70s synth, prog rock, shoegaze, ambient).
If I'm working in a group with others, the only time I can handle any music is during coding (unless maybe we just have classical playing faintly in the background).
If you need complete silence when working that's also fine, it's not just you.
I tend to go for a mixture of both.