Nadia Boulanger Quotes

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

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

I'm a seeker of transcendence through music, and that's kind of where I'm at with the live shows - wanting to help people get out of their heads a little bit.

Nothing is better than music; when it takes us out of time, it has done more for us than we have the right to hope for: it has broadened the limits of our sorrowful life, it has lit up the sweetness of our hours of happiness by effacing the pettinesses that diminish us, bringing us back pure and new to what was, what will be, what music has created for us.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Music I do just for me.

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

I've got rid of a lot of cynicism and anger. I feel positive about my development, and I just want to carry on making music and building myself as a person.

Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.

I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

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 is my release.

My father was a preacher so I wouldn't sing at all when he was around, but as soon as he locked the door, 'La la la.'

In some ways, the more that I write songs, the more I feel that telling a story is the most important thing; just being able to close your eyes when you hear some lyrics and go somewhere.

Being an entertainer, my path to inner peace is engulfed in the music that I create. While it is therapeutic for those who hear it, it is equally therapeutic for me to create.

Music has always enhanced our experience of life on earth by seeming to give us access to something larger than ourselves - the strings of the universe.

Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.

I know Nirvana's a strange thing. It means a lot of things to a lot of people.

Music has always taken me to another plane of existence.

Music is like church to me. It's as spiritual a connection as I just about ever make.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me, which is make me feel more free and more accepting of myself.