Music: how it shapes perspective

I feel at times that music shapes what writers write. That by hearing and falling in love with a certain song, an inspiration is sparked and from it is ignited a tale, a novel. This is how music has shaped many a scene in television or movies, and I am sure it can also be said to have influenced writers and their works. In my own experience with music, I know that such songs as "The Prophet’s Song" by Queen and Green Day’s "Holiday" have both been instrumental in my works. The Prophet’s song had struck such ominous chords in my imagination at such a young age so as to inspire me to write something with apocalyptic overtones, it nonetheless culminating in my first work, From Whence They Came. Also too the striking phrase by Green Day “Like an Armageddon flame” is such a vivid depiction of foreboding doom that I just had to sample it from them too, weaving it into the narrative at the beginning of the book, and finally in my latest work, 2025, I sampled their line . . . beg to dream and differ from their hollow lies . . . in describing the Liberal state. I hope they don’t mind. Such an awesome song, I now listen to it as I write this. There are, I’m sure thousands of tie-ins as to music throughout literature, just how many authors bring them to the spotlight, I’d like to know.