Elvis Presley Quotes

People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.

Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.

I like music to soothe me.

Over the years, Cajun music has always calmed me down, or if I'm feeling real sick or feeling real unsettled, I can put that music on and try to get focused again.

During childbirth and hospice I'll sing gospel songs that my grandma taught me when I was younger, or something I've made up, or I'll hum. I just play things that I think the audience will like.

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.

Football sometimes is stressful. Music is more of a kind of laid-back type, chilled-out kind of activity. It kind of keeps me balanced, I guess.

Music has the ability to comfort people.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

When I was younger, I used to do that a lot: I would hear a part of a song that would really relax me and then put it on repeat. That would send me to sleep. It was quite obvious classical music, people like Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel.

Music is an escape for me.

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.

The music I love to sing would have to be gospel - it just uplifts me, it takes me to a really good place.

I need to listen to chill music when I'm driving. It prevents road rage.

I still believe that music is healing to some extent.

After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process.

Imagine if every airport would blast Brian Eno. I bet going through security wouldn't be as difficult. I can't imagine someone being aggressive with me with Brian Eno music pumping through the terminals at LAX.

The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.

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

For me, you can put on something by Bach, and I'll feel better.

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

I love music - it's soothing and takes away from all the other stuff.

I think music - it sounds cliche, but music can be very healing.

I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.