Amanda Shires Quotes

Music is my release.

Music is my release.

Music became a healer for me.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.

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

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.

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

Music is my expression. Music is my release. Music is my therapy.

Music has always kind of been an escape for me.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.

Music is something I can control.

Music is about expressing things you can't in everyday life.

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.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Singing becomes a form of therapy.

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

Music was my one way to vent.

I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways.

I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.

And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.

Everything I was feeling, all the hurt and the pain and the emotion I was going through, I put into my music.

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.