Jon Hopkins Quotes

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

Usually, I'll just sit down at a piano or with a guitar, and I'll just be relaxed and playing music. Because that's what relaxes your subconscious. That's why everyone from animals to humans love music.

Music is a safe kind of high.

Let the music defuse all the tension.

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

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.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

When I'm shooting films, I write and play music when I come home.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

It's really helpful to be physically engaged in something that's completely different from my day-to-day work.

To relax, I do yoga and meditate and do little math problems, and it's fun to check that part of your brain off and turn on a different part.

Music was my one way to vent.

Football management is such a pressurised thing - horseracing is a release. I'm also learning to play the piano - I'm quite determined - it's another release from the pressure of my job.

I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

Country has been a wonderful outlet for me.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

I was always that girl who loved music and thought of music as an escape route.

I think everyone should sing - it's so good for you, as it makes you breathe deeply, and it's good for you emotionally, too. It's a brilliant release way of lifting the spirits.

I can take all the negative energy and turn it into a positive simply by purging my soul through music. That's how powerful music can be.

Music should be made to make people forget their problems, if only for a short while.