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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
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
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
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
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
I find a therapy in playing music, in many different ways. -- Dave Matthews
I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people. -- David Byrne
Music is a therapy.It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient. -- Yehudi Menuhin
Music is my therapy and my straitjacket. Music keeps me sane and keeps my mind on something. It's fragile up there. -- will.i.am
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
Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful. -- Amy Lee
I grew up using hearing aids, and I had speech therapy and so forth, and that helped me to develop a passion for music and helped me to develop my drumming talents. -- Sean Berdy
Music is just such... it's not therapy, but it's a release, it's a joy, it's a pleasure. And it's a job - which is weird, because I don't think of it as a job. -- Bryan Adams
I actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies. -- J. K. Simmons
Music therapy was so important in the early stages of my recovery because it can help retrain different parts of your brain to form language centers in areas where they weren't before you were injured. -- Gabrielle Giffords
I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side projects don't because it's so personal. I write the words. Music is like my diary. It's my therapy. -- Eve
I am always thinking about writing music; my wife is constantly asking me: 'Is there any way you can turn off the music part of your brain for a minute?' but I really can't! It's my form of therapy. -- Kellin Quinn
Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something. -- Banks
I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well. -- Vanilla Ice
I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year. -- Jon Lord
Music isn't just music, it's therapy. -- Steve Garrigan
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I found music to be the therapy of choice. -- David Byrne
I tend to use my music as therapy, in a way. -- Sarah Barthel
The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy! -- Dolly Parton
Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need. -- Danielle LaPorte
For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way. -- Wyclef Jean
I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart. -- Alasdair Gray
I guess, I ended up finding music to pour my curiosity into. It was my creative outlet and therapy at the same time. -- Missy Higgins
When something seems unbalanced and out of rhythm, just a song can tune things up in a moment. The power of music is therapy. -- Anthony Liccione
I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to express it. -- Naturi Naughton
To me, as to Pythagoras, music is not merely entertainment or amusement...but therapy...for actuating...the healing power that exists within us all: Life Energy. -- John Diamond

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