Music Therapy Quotes:

I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way.

- Sarah Barthel

topic: Use, Way, Music Therapy

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Music, Wisdom, Silence, Jazz And Life, Music Life

Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.

- Macklemore

source: Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. December 10, 2011.

topic: Moving, Heart, Medicine, Music Therapy, Heart Strings

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

- Bob Marley

topic: Funny, Music, Wisdom, Love Freedom, Jamaican Music

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

- Oliver Sacks

topic: Unique, Tools, Music Therapy, Parkinson's, Neurological Disorders

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

- Confucius

topic: Music, Wisdom, Art, Music Life, Music Therapy

Where words fail, music speaks.

- Hans Christian Andersen

source: Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

topic: Inspirational, Music, Listening, Music Life, Music Therapy

The healing power of music is vast. Music therapy is in its infancy in Western psychology. If we knew more, we'd be able to do amazing things, and maybe even make permanent changes in the brain's mysterious workings. With a simple song and four chords, you might be able to do something useful, even life-changing. With all the songs you know, you might be a virtual, veritable medicine chest for the right person.

- Gary Talley

topic: Song, Life Changing, Writing, Music Therapy, Permanent Change

Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem.

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Pain, Past, Ego, Music Therapy

Music is an art that goes well beyond science. Proof can be found in the huge amount of studies that have been carried out throughout the world based on music-therapy and the important results achieved.

- Andrea Bocelli

source: "Opera Star Andrea Bocelli: Faith Is the Only Way Forward". Interview with Mark Hensch, www.christianpost.com. November 28, 2011.

topic: Art, Important, World, Music Therapy

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

- Jean Paul

topic: Music, Night, Moonlight, Jazz And Life, Music Therapy

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Pablo Picasso

source: "LIFE", Vol. 57, nr. 11, (p. 9), September 11, 1964.

topic: Life, Art, Dust, Fine Arts, Jazz And Life

I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.

- Arthur Darvill

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

topic: Guitar, Piano, Feelings, Music Therapy, Feeling Angry

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.

- Charlie Parker

source: Quoted in Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff, Hear Me Talkin' to Ya (1955)

topic: Music, Art, Men, Jazz And Blues, Jazz And Life

Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position.

- James Hillman

source: Source: scottlondon.com

topic: Art, Example, Way, Music Therapy, Art Therapy