Quotes about Musical Therapy

I love, love, love songwriting. It's like the most therapeutic thing in the world.

Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.

Music makes illness retreat.

I constantly write, record, and play music for public consumption and because it's therapeutic for me.

It's the music that pulls me in and makes me forget about my problems at home. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

Hard to find a better drug than a song you love.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.

We all have our daily prescription of yoga, football, religion, or whatever gets us through that day. My thing is music. It's the only thing that gives me a sense of calm and balance. It's the thing I know I'm good at.

Music should be your escape.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.

I had prostate cancer that, for me, was debilitating. I didn't touch a guitar for two years, but when I realized I was seeing the light at the end of the recovery tunnel and was going to live pain-free, I realized again that it was a fun little instrument to play.

Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.

Song writing has been a lifeline for me.

I've always used songs and music and songwriting as a way to sort of let feelings go.

Music soothes you, especially when you write, sing or play an instrument. It really can be a cure for everything.

I believe good music heals souls.

Maybe if they played those poppy, jingling Christmas songs on an endless loop in the tank it would be enough.

I basically have needed to go to the piano and give voice periodically to, you know - I'm always afraid to describe it as a kind of therapeutic process, but nevertheless it was a type of unloading that had to occur due to my personal life with my mother's health or just my professional trials and tribulations.

If you're going through a difficult time, and there's a piece of music that speaks to you - be it musically or lyrically or both - you are almost always able to access that music. You're always able to sit down with it.