Charles Spurgeon Quotes

Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood.

I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

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

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

I always like a good song: puts me in a good mood.

Music really helps - singing is huge because it releases all the endorphins and gives me a real thrill. But I still have bad days.

When I need to exorcise a demon, I grab whatever score is going to house the song I need to sing out of my system, and I sing it.

I've always enjoyed singing as a hobby and an antidepressant.

I have always believed people can sing themselves, even if they can't sing well, into a place of joy and happiness.

When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.

I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

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

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.

There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.

Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends.

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

I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.

I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.

I am glad to see the people grooving to and loving the Punjabi tunes. I also personally feel that Punjabi songs have a different vibe and energy, which helps in lifting one's mood completely.

I feel like music can affect you in so many ways. When you hear a song with a happy melody, it can change your mood; it can change your day.

With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you up in its hand and sweep you along.

When the music hits you, you feel no pain.