Garth Hudson Quotes

When I came to New York after high school in 1959 and started to meet musicians, 'Hot House' was like a standard jam session tune.

If you started in New York you were dealing with the biggest guys in the world. You're dealing with Charlie Parker and all the big bands and everything. We got more experience working in Seattle.

I actually met Chick Corea in New York, where I was staying with a bass player friend.

The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

I have always loved jazz music and as a teen growing up in New York City and then later on as an adult have great memories of the jazz clubs that were all located on 52nd Street. I still catch as many jazz shows as I can when I am in New York. And when I perform, I have my jazz quartet by my side. Jazz musicians keep things spontaneous and very "live," which is the way I like to perform.

I made an album of healing music called 'Grace and Gratitude' that came from my soul.

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

I had not been in the jazz environment, having been brought up in the church. But once I got to New York, and I was signed to perform at The Village Gate and the Vanguard and clubs like that, and these - the Vanguard was one of the most elite, if not the most elite, jazz club out there.

I used to go to the Church of the Harvest, right off Adams and La Brea. There was a pastor there who had the best big choir and the best band. He would start praying, and the music would start playing and just make people feel so good, you could break out of whatever you were going through. Soft music can have that effect, too.

Music is like a medicine.

What I love about Stevie Wonder is the way he makes people feel. He's one of the best examples of how music can heal.

I was living in New York. Sometimes, our gang of musicians would go to Louis Armstrong's home and play records. It was a lesson, like going to school at night. Ella Fitzgerald was an inspiration, too, a unique artist. When you had an opportunity to be with people like them, you cherished it.

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

As long as I could sing my songs, I wasn't as angry about what had happened, about being shoved back for this or shoved back for the other.

I believe good music heals souls.

It's really important for me that the people who listen to my music get something that can hopefully help them get through whatever they're going through. Music is the only thing that's able to help sooth my soul in that way, and my goal is to always put things out there that that do the same thing for other people.

Music makes illness retreat.

I just fell in love with the music, man. The music just took control. It really saved my life.

I feel like songwriting, for me, is kind of therapy.

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

Simply put, music can heal people.

Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality.

New York is the perfect town for getting over a disappointment, a loss, or a broken heart.

The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.