Quotes about Musical Therapy

Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.

Music is the medicine of the mind.

Music in general, but really musical theater has always been a real coping mechanism for me.

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

If you cannot sleep, sing to your soul.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

If something's upsetting me, being able to go in and work on new music makes all the difference in the world.

I've spent nearly thirty years listening to people sing about broken hearts, has it helped me any? Has it fuck.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

Music is there to get you through life's ups and downs, good times and not so good times.

If you break up with your partner, go straight to the studio. You're going to make great music.

I fight these strange personalities by getting into music.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

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

When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too.

You know, what can I say. If a relationship can't work out, make a record.

Singing is kind of like stress relief and everything just kind of makes sense when I'm doing this.

When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

Making music has always made me happy. When I go through a situation, the best way for me to get over it is to bundle up all of my emotions about it, put it in a little shell, create something, and then let it go.

Sondheim informs us, more than any other composer, about the joys, passion and pain of being a woman living in various social conditions through the ages with frightening accuracy. Playing a variety of his characters has always made me feel like I'm having a free therapy session through his words and music!

I get my sticks and go out to the shed, and I pound on that drum like it was my boss's head.

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Actually doing a song, going to the studio, and just getting out on paper your anger makes you feel a little better sometimes.