“I think any time I’ve ever got down or ever felt low the one thing that picks me up from that is writing a song about it. At least you’ve got a positive experience out of a bad experience.”
Singer Ed Sheeran
“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears – it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more – it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
Oliver Sacks, best-selling author and professor of neurology at NYU School Of Medicine
“Music is life itself.”
louis armstrong, jazz trumpeter (1901-1971)
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
bob marley (1945-1981)
“Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It’s transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It’s uplifting, it’s encouraging, it’s strengthening.”
The late, great singer Aretha Franklin
“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.”
elton John, who says we should never be afraid of saying three simple words: “I need help.”
