Mental Music Quotes

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

Through most of my life, music has been like a radio that plays and plays in my head.

I wish everyone could hear the soundtrack for my life that I hear in my head.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Even when I'm not onstage singing, there's always music going on in my head. It's a curse and a blessing in a way - it's sitting in bed at night, trying to go to sleep, while the music keeps playing in your head - especially when you're trying to learn something new and you're trying to memorize it and get everything.

Most people imagine music playing in their heads, but some hallucinate music; some cannot sleep because of the soundtrack in their mind.

On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.

I always have melodies flowing in my head - whether I'm just at home, at the mall, at a restaurant or wherever. I'm always humming along to the random melodies that form in my head.

I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.

Music. I could not go without that. My mind would not let me be without music. I hiked the trail in 1995 - before there were iPods or music on our cell phones or even cell phones. So I was truly out there with just my thoughts. After a few days there was a continuous loop of songs playing silently in my mind.

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand.