Donald O'Connor Quotes

Music became a healer for me.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.

I could work out a lot of my emotions by going to class and dancing.

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.

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

After filming, I can't wait to shake off all that '50s primness. I'll go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - it's dead important.

Sometimes I need to blow off steam and go dance really hard.

Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

The violin has always been important for me. My mom was a single mom and we moved around a lot, and so the violin was always the one constant I had. I always feel better when I had my violin. Playing it is cathartic.

Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you feel like you're telling the truth.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.

Whenever I like a new song, I play it on loop and dance to it. That's my therapy.

Basically, when I like a song, I have to dance.

When you dance, things just go away, things don't seem so bad.

Dance has helped me overcome a lot of personal challenges. If I feel sad or depressed, I just go to the set and dance. It makes me feel alive.

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

I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.

Rap was more of a release for me, a journal.

When I do music, I'm really getting the devil up off me.

Songwriting is therapeutic for me.

I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.

What better to get all the anger and stuff out for what I do in Slipknot than to play the drums? You're punching everything, really fast, concentrated.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

I've learned that music is such a healer.