Music as a Source of Healing Quotes

We all have different relationships with music. But the music is always there.

All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?'

I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.

An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.

As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Mahalia Jackson. It was truly spiritual. It made you understand what God was. We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.

I don't think there is anyone who cannot relate to music.

That's why we do this. In country music, we do this for this very reason... to impact people lyrically, to be a part of their lives.

When you're a young person, the solace one can get from popular music is something I just have tremendous nostalgia for, affection for. I still have it.

If someone says, 'Hey man, I love your album, it really got me through a breakup, but I downloaded it for free,' I'll be like, 'Good! That's good!' Maybe he didn't have the money for the album, but if he still listened to it, and it's an important part of his life, that's all I can ask for. I don't want his twenty bucks.

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.

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

We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.