Music Solace Quotes

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.

Music, Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Alexander's Feast

When I felt upset and lost, music always had the answer.

Solace? That's why God made fermented beverages and the blues.

'Rock Bottom Riser' by Smog - I was just in Europe, and my jet lag never really went away. I wasn't sleeping very much. Then one night, my girlfriend saw a Bill Callahan show in L.A. and took a video of that song and sent it to me. I was just listening to it over and over - it was comforting.

I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.

I don't know if music can change the world overnight but I know that music can help someone make it through a difficult night.

When I sing or play music, I'm able to relieve myself of whatever it is that I'm struggling with.

Rufus Wainwright is my go-to for any kind of emotion. He's got songs for all of it.

Some of us are born with a weakness for music. As a baby, music would stop whatever thought I was having. If I was worried, it would stop me worrying; if I was crying, it would stop me crying. Music was a healing thing for me.

I would say that for me while growing up, music was my best friend in many ways, and I hope my music can do that for others, to make them feel less alone.

Music is the brandy of the damned.

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

Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

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.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

Some of the best songs are love songs. They're things that we all go through, and when we're going through it, we think that we're the only person in the world going through that. Having that music there sort of reminds you that you're not alone. It happens to me, too, as a music fan.

When I'm singing, it's like I'm at home. And music is a great healer. I think I'd have been a basket case if I hadn't been a singer.

Music is the best consolation for a despaired man

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

Radio was my friend after 'Jack & Diane' and 'Hurts So Good.'

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.