Do you ever get a word stuck in your brain

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It happens to me a lot, especially when I try to think in language without any visual context in my mind, in which I describe what I see.
Without this visual context I fall into echolalia, as I loose context of meaning.
Also I do have a lot of music in my brains or sequences of it.
Sometimes I find it very disturbing, sometimes it calms me down.

I pretty much always have music going on in my head. Often I'm going through a song hearing all of the parts exactly as they are in whichever recording I have. I'm often also "playing along" with my fingers on my leg, doing either bass/guitar or piano fingerings. This helps me not do very visible stims in public, too.

I also hear it exactly, mostly classical music.
And I differenciate the different instruments or "play" like only one violin.
Or I have situations, where I have to go out with people and I am completely withdrawn into myself and change in my head the tempi of the music or "experiment" in some way with it.
I have a big classical repertoire in my head and it started at very young age (like age 3).

Yes. Constantly.

Definitely. All the time. I think some of my better word noise poems get their start that way. Of course what perspective would I have after repeating the same line(s) all day long? At least it changes with the new day. Usually.

I get words, phrases, and names of people/places stuck in my head (and, of course, song lyrics/melodies). There are too many examples to remember, but I do recall that once when I was a teenager, I had the lyric "A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio" from the song "Name" by the Goo Goo Dolls stuck in my head. But the biggest example of a phrase getting stuck in my head is "gives birth to a child", which I keep repeating over and over in my head whenever I feel anxious/an impending panic attack. I think it may qualify as some kind of mental tic.

Yeah, I do this sort of thing all the time--I'll randomly recite a word or a phrase for my own amusement. My username comes from one such word fixation. "Nyan"--as in Nyan Cat and the Japanese word for "meow"--is a fun one I've been stuck on as of late.

I usually have a song every day that gets stuck into my head. It's weird because it'll be playing in my head for the whole day whether I like it or not and different things will trigger different songs...usually if I hear it but it can be other things as well.

I repeat a word or phrase said by me or others that my brain picks as the most important in a sentence and repeat it over and over. I will spell the word against my finger using pressure and concentrating on syllables. I will read something (short) over and over even though I understood it the first time. I'l repeat the exact same way and tone/ingflection something someone on tv says if they have an intensity or tone that strikes my brain just after they say it, sometimes start before they finish. Things like that.

Ugh, YES! I didn't realize this didn't happen to most people. I get single lines from songs stuck in my head. . .when I was on a date with my husband the other night i had "Pooh gets the honey" (from the winnie the pooh movie--my daughter watched it that morning) running through my head the whole time we were at the restraunt. I managed to not sing it out loud (or even under my breath) while we were there. Apparently, the crowd was helping me suppress singing aloud because as soon as we got home i started singing that bit, I didn't even realize i was singing it out loud until my husband commented on it

when i am having scenarios and the scenario is empty of content, i always find myself saying "ive got 9 50"

explain that one

Allot of times I'll get the last thing I said stuck in my head. Just a couple words forming a phrase.