It's extraordinary to hear from people who are bereaved, or gone through a divorce, and they still take the time to tell me how a certain track or album helped them through tough times, or kept them sane.
When I do listen to music a lot of times I listen to old school music, I'm talking about Earth, Wind & Fire, I'm talking about the Isley Brothers, the O'Jays. It just eases my mind.
There is genuine healing in a beautifully crafted musical theatre song, like Stephen Sondheim's 'Losing My Mind,' or a pop music gem like Joni Mitchell's 'Help Me.'
Music fills peoples with life. It doesn't have to be a 'happy song.' If you have that one song that relates to you, whether it's a sad song or a gangster song, whatever relates to you the most in that moment, it can literally get you through the day.
That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
Life can be challenging and sad... but music is the easy part.
I get tons of messages every day telling me, 'Your music has provided me with answers.'
Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast
When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.
The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.
Wherever I go with my life, even the good times and the bad parts, only two people are with me: God and my music.
Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
People get comfort from music. They get joy from it and understanding from it, and most of all, the average person can't do without it in some sense.
Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.
Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.
Brian Eno records and music became a huge obsession of mine in college, in a way that a pop song can provide solace. I don't know if it's shallow or silly, but it meant so much to me.
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 my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there.
My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.
I found music when I was very dark. I felt unheard, with inner dialogues that I didn't know how to express.
Listening to Ozzy Osbourne at full blast always made me feel a little bit better. It made me feel like I wasn't alone.
I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.
one gud thing abut music if hits u fell no pain :p <3
Music was my one way to vent.
These songs are old friends I have entertained myself with when I'm washing the dishes, driving to the store and walking down the aisles. The ones that you sing when you're driving in the car and as a singer you always go back to them.
