Quotes About Imagination

I've got so many melodies in my head.

I just write... I follow the melodies that I can't forget/the ones that pop up in my brain the most.

Absolutely, I'm living my dream. Yeah. My wife always jokes, says I'm a big kid, you know, playing in the studio and coming up with melodies and sounds. And, you know, I wouldn't know any other way because I just have music in my head all the time, and I just love it.

Jim had melodies as well as words. He didn't know how to play a chord on any instrument, but he had melodies in his head. To remember the lyrics he would think of melodies and then they would stay in his head. He had melodies and lyrics in his head, and he would sing them a cappella, and we would eke out the arrangements.

I've always got these little melodies running around in my head, although most of them aren't worth much, and I understand structure and formulas.

Here's the thing: My hobby is to DJ. I just love music, so I can hear the beginning of a beat, the beginning of a melody, and think of the words, think of the name of the song, think of the hook, and just go there.

I kind of always thought that I had a good ear for melodies. I think in terms of melody. I can just be walking and I'll hear a melody.

I started writing songs before I could talk - at three or four. It was in me, and I had to get it out. It was all freestyle, which is how I write anyway. I don't write the words down; I scat and come up with the melody, then the lyrics.

Music is so abstract; it is a combination of words and melody.

I just remember really loving words and writing about anything I could, and the way I'd remember things, like my library card number, was to make a melody.

I'd say almost that words come first, melody second.

I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.

I don't know how to read music. You pick your guitar, you start playing chords and make up a melody that comes out of your head.

I think you can do a lot with lyrics and melody.

I agree to play a character if I feel that as an audience member, it will entertain me.

I do not think direct experience is always necessary to act, but I believe that sometimes you have to have had the real experience to act certain roles. One of those was losing your family member. I was not being able to imagine how sad that could be.

All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

I always used to put on plays when I was younger for my family to watch, when I was 10 or something. I used to force older members of my family to watch the plays and younger members of my family to be characters in the plays - and my personal favorite was Batman.

With memoir, you have the clay of your life to work with. When you're writing a novel, you have to make the clay first.

Fiction isn't memoir and memoir isn't fiction.

There is a lot of scepticism today as to whether memoir is real. But when fiction is done at a certain level there is scepticism as to whether it is really fiction.

Memoirs are a well-known form of fiction.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

We think of our future as anticipated memories.