Jewel Quotes

Melody's like tweezers that go into the infection and pull out the wounded part. You can almost not stay silent in the face of a melody that matches your emotion. You feel seen.

We don't have a particular plan. We just do what we do. This is the only way we know how to do it. We make the music that moves us. We use it as therapy. The songs are cathartic. They're ways of dealing with life experiences and the world around you. It's meant to be as a release for us as it is for other people.

It is painful to relive things that have caused emotional crises or whatever and find ways to express that musically.

Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.

The form of the blues helps us express our joys, our fears, our - anything you want to express. And it helps you get it out instead of it spiraling inward, and you're getting twisted up and exploding. So it's a bit of salvation.

Music heals. Music grows new relations.

Making music has always had a therapeutic effect on me.

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

Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Everybody loves a sad ballad because it's cathartic. For artists, in a lot of ways, that's sort of our therapy sessions is when you're singing a song.

This album [Give the People What They Want] has almost been in the making for almost three years now. When we first began on it, my mother was sick. When she passed away, I got on stage and played that night. The music helped take me away.

Music is catharsis for me.

one gud thing abut music if hits u fell no pain :p <3

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

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

The people need to feel the music.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

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

That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.