Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.
Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
Sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up with a song in my head, and I have to finish it so I can fall back asleep.
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.
When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.
It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.
We live with incessant music, all the time. It's like some weird musical purgatory, there is absolutely no rest for the ears, no space to absorb and reflect.
Why be in music, why write songs, if you can't use them to explore life or an idealized vision of life? I believe a lot of our lives are spent asleep, and what I've been trying to do is hold on to those moments when a little spark cuts through the fog and nudges you.
Music stops you from thinking.