Music And Healing Quotes

• Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

  Elton John

  Music, Healing, People

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. August 21, 2006.

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• One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

  Bob Marley

  Funny, Music, Wisdom

  Song: Trenchtown Rock

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Philosophy, Thinking

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.36, BoD - Books on Demand

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• Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

  Victor Hugo

  Music, Sound And Music, Musical Life

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Inspiration, Mind, Body

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1996). “The Mysticism of Sound and Music”, p.29, Shambhala Publications

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  In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

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• I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

  Billy Joel

  Music, Healing, Thinking

  Interview with Anthony DeCurtis, www.rollingstone.com. November 06, 1986.

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• Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

  Pat Conroy

  Music, Journey, Desert

  Pat Conroy (1995). “Beach Music”, Nan A. Talese

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  I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

  Billy Joel

  Inspirational, Motivational, Music

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Aug 19, 2013

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• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

  Aldous Huxley

  Motivational, Music, Wisdom

  Music at Night (1931) p. 17

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• Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star.

  Don Williams

  Music, Stars, Forlorn

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• Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Inspiration

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.351, Library of Alexandria

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Danger

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Music, Piano, Soul

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Should Have

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Music, Uplifting, Healing

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: Sufi Mysticism”, p.351, Library of Alexandria

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• I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Thinking, Ideas

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.822, Delphi Classics

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• See deep enough, and you see musically.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Enough, Music Healing

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions”, p.135

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• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  Music, Soul, Honor

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• For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

  Reba McEntire

  Music, Song, Hurt

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Fear, Failure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

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• Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Music, Wisdom, Philosophy

  Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Kerst, Henry Edward Krehbiel (1964). “Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”, p.13, Courier Corporation

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• Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.

  George Eliot

  Music, Effort, Goes On

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1203, Wordsworth Editions

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  Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

  George Carlin

  Inspirational, Life, Music

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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