Musical Escape Quotes

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

With singing, you get lost in the music - I go into another world when I'm singing.

I have found my heaven in musicals. When I watch a musical, it makes me believe life is still beautiful.

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 don't think I can ever escape from music.

The world’s a better place since I chose music. I like the physical aspect of it, the volume and the intensity of it. It’s loud and hard. I like all that because inside me I feel like screaming.

There is nothing like a Bach fugue to remove me from a discordant moment... only Bach hold up fresh and strong after repeated playing. I can always return to Bach when the other records weary me.

Lenny Breau was a genius - inspired and really loose. I loved how he used the guitar as an extension of his inner freedom, because, obviously, on the outside there were a lot of trainwrecks going on. But when you listen to him play, you hear what kind of guy he really is

It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.

When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.

We hide ourselves in our music to reveal ourselves

I'm really loving Billie Eilish's 'idontwannabeyouanymore.' Her dreamy vocals offer such a lovely moment of escape, and there's a sophistication to the lyrics that are so surprising coming from a teen artist.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

One often makes music to supplement one's world.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

When I play the trumpet, I'm in a different character.

Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.

I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected - to my music.

I would totally lose myself in the music and be a gypsy. I would go wherever I wanted to in my head - wherever the music took me. My body followed.

We're in entertainment. We're supposed to be making music that communicates with people, but ultimately, it's supposed to be something that people can enjoy. Sometimes you just want to escape for an hour and a half.

If I was on an island, just for melody, I would take albums by the Stones, AC/DC and the Beach Boys' Smiley Smile.

A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.

There tend to be two different drives that lead young people toward music. One is that music provides an escape; it takes you away from the unhappiness or torture of where you are and makes you feel less alienated-you believe there is a place you fit in somewhere else. The other is a sort of transcendent, spiritual feeling in the purity of music.

I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.

Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.