Music as a Form of Therapy Quotes

I've been told the weirdest things: 'Yeah, I love taking a bath to your music!' or 'I gave birth to my daughter while listening to your music.'

Music is what I love to do; it's in my veins.

Simply put, music can heal people.

My whole life I've played music for my own personal enjoyment and the idea of it becoming a machine or a business is just horrible.

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.

..my music isn't just music- its medicine.

I always make music as an art - it's never been a product for me.

I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life.

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.

I am never going to give music up.

I really do feel like music is the only thing that I can do.

We're not writing songs to solve a cultural problem. The goal for us is to express what we're going through, and it's great if people find commonality in that.

When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences.

I'm a music person. Music is, for me, the best way to cure any sort of anxiety or icky feelings. I think it immediately takes you out of your element and makes some other person do the work for your thoughts.

Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me.

I didn't get into music; music got into me.

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

The only time we actually even think about our music is in interviews. We have to explain why we do what we do, even though it seems pointless to us to explain it. The rest of the time we just do what we do and don't worry about it.

Having the opportunity to express myself through music has been extremely cathartic for me my entire life.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.

People tried to change my concept of what music is. That music is work, but it's not like that.

Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was.