therapeutic effect Quotes

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

When someone really hears you without passing judgment on you, without trying to take responsibility for you, without trying to mold you, it feels damn good. . . . When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and to go on. It is astonishing how elements which seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens. How confusions which seem irremediable turn into relatively clear flowing streams when one is heard.

I always feel better after a good scream.

For art to be art it has to cure.

Simply put, music can heal people.

Music is very therapeutic and healing, and I hit it from all angles.

It's a successful feeling when someone tells you that you were instrumental in helping them heal from a great wound in their life.

I think there's no greater healing power than music.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

Music really helps me. It's like a best friend.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

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

I can be in the worst PMS, Mercury in retrograde, most awful circumstance - and then if my girlfriends and I are giggling about it, everything's okay.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

When I'm feeling awful, music is the only thing that releases the pressure. It's been the best psychiatrist I've ever had.

Music is a healing tool.

Every single day, I get letters - very moving, overwhelming letters - testifying how much my books have meant to people in times of crisis in their lives, when they were very ill, say. If I ever doubted that writing could play an important part in people's lives, I don't doubt that now.

Dancing is so wonderful. Once they start the music, your whole day, if it's been rotten, seems to melt away. You get carried away in the tune that you're moving to. It's a marvelous catharsis, to be able to get on top and tap dance.

Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.

I got a chance to act in a film, 'Derailed.' I was having a recurring nightmare, and after doing that film, the nightmares stopped.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

I think psychology still has a sway over everything we do, but music, in and of itself, is the therapy.

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

A car can massage organs which no masseur can reach. It is the one remedy for the disorders of the great sympathetic nervous system.