B. B. King Quotes

Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.

I think there's no greater healing power than music.

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.

Music became a healer for me.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

Music has always been such an amazing tool for me to access self and emotion.

I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

Music is like therapy, you know? It's my escape. It's my way for me to express my feelings and my thoughts.

Music is very therapeutic and healing, and I hit it from all angles.

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music, a form of release to them.

I think psychology still has a sway over everything we do, but music, in and of itself, is the therapy.

Music is a great healer.

I think music - it sounds cliche, but music can be very healing.

We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it's fixing their lives. It's helping. It's healing. It's bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

I've learned that music is such a healer.