Joyful Release Quotes

When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.

The support I've had from home has made it so much more fun to put music out.

You street-dance in a club, you're performing. Whether anybody sees me is a whole other thing. But it doesn't matter, because it fills my void.

When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out of our minds!

I am heartily rejoiced that my term is so near its close. I will soon cease to be a servant and will become a sovereign.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

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

Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.

I feel like I need to sing again.

All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.

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

It was liberating to do comedy. It felt like playing in a jazz band.

You should celebrate the end of a love affair as they celebrate death in New Orleans, with songs, laughter, dancing and a lot of wine.

Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.

I always felt free when I ran. I suppose that's what was good about it.

I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.

Sometimes I'll lock myself in a room and dance. I'll turn music on as loud as possible and just get weird!

The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy.

I know the joy of skating on a clear cold day. I know the joy of getting off a perfect drive in golf. I know the delight of a fine meal after a long walk. These are real and wholesome, but all of them put together can not approach the thrill of ridding yourself of fear!

I think art is a healing force, and if we give in to the joy that can be found in art, then we are able to sustain ourselves in spite of ourselves.

When I sing, I think mostly about the music. But I know that, through singing, my body shows everything that I am. I am a very passionate man and I suffer a lot and have a lot of joy also. In my opinion, it is very important for me to find this stimulus and motivation for singing.

I love singing. It makes me feel good. It's like a release, especially when I'm singing soul music.

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.