Comforting Sounds Quotes

Music can be a source of escapism.

Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge.

To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me in a lot of ways. It's helped me get through some tough times.' That's the best compliment that you could get.

It takes a special, selfless person to make music that accommodates the universal need for mindless escapism - or what I call oblivion.

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace.

What a thing it is to sit absolutely alone, in the forest, at night, cherished by this wonderful, unintelligible, perfectly innocent speech, the most comforting speech in the world, the talk that rain makes by itself all over the ridges, and the talk of the watercourses everywhere in the hollows! Nobody started it, nobody is going to stop it. It will talk as long as it wants this rain. As long as it talks I am going to listen.

The phrase 'blue plate special' has always been one of the homiest, coziest, most sweetly nostalgic phrases in the English language for me.

Music is a great healer.

Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.

Music took me from a real dark place to a real bright one.

Pardon me if this all sounds corny, but when you put on a record, I'd like it to be an escape from everything you do.

I really like worship music. It settles my soul. Gets me back on track. The lyrics are almost like a prayer, so it's my go-to.

For me, music is my joy. It's my happiness. As long as this medicine, this chemo is in my body, I didn't have my love, my joy.

I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.

With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.

People say to me about my music 'it got me through college, it saved my marriage, it helped me to come out.' It's wonderful to be part of someone's life in a big way.'

From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

I know for me, music was the best drug for anxiety. So that's why I wanted to write the music that I do, because it always suits my anxiety. It's a huge part of my life, and being able to make music that can help people with their anxiety is a huge thing for me.

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

For many people, music is here to let them forget the daily chores of life.

Music has always been a dominant force in my life. As a young kid, it was a way for me to escape everyday life.

Music for me is an emotional necessity. It's therapy. It's what I live and breathe.

I start really missing London when I go away. I have a little flat, but very central. I live above a pub and you'd think it'd be a nightmare, but I like hearing the music and it's quite comforting.

When times are good, we have tunes to dance to; when times are tough, we're supposed to talk about it. That's country music.