Music as Medicine Quotes

Music is what I breathe, what I love to do. It keeps me alive.

With music, it's a therapy for me. So whatever I'm dealing with at the time, I talk about it when I rap.

I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations.

My whole mission in general, ever since I was fourteen, was to write music that would help people heal.

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

Music controls moods and accents life's moments. It's necessary for every situation.

Music truly heals, and I am so grateful to have learned that through Musicians on Call.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.

I really think that the music is the food for our souls.

My music is really my therapy. I really lay all my feelings into the songs, and really just leave 'em there. I don't carry that weight when I'm going throughout life. I'm not sad all the time.

You can radically change a person's life with a tune. I don't think people truly understand or appreciate how powerful that is.

Music makes illness retreat.

Live music is the cure for what ails ya.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.

I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.

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

What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.