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Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.

— Gil Scott-Heron

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

— Aaron Carter

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

— Damien Rice

Good music makes you feel something.

— Zac Brown

Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy.

— Juanes

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

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

— Dick Cavett

Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

— Ville Valo

Good music just makes me happy and keeps me from getting distracted.

— Sloane Stephens

There's so much chaos in life, I think I make music to make things feel calm and sane, to define something, to bring some meaning into it - it's a real peaceful thing to me.

— Bill Callahan

✗Opposing Perspectives

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

— Paula Cole