“I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.” KnowsMindBelieveForceI BelieveLevelsHealingMusic IsMedicineCures Author:Burning Spear
“Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.” WayHumanityMusic IsFundamentalsMedicine Author:Oliver Sacks
“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.” WantWantedSchoolBlackClassGrowing UpStudyMiddleParticularMomMusic IsDoctorsMedicineProfessionLawyerErasMiddle ClassWant MePlaying MusicBlack Family Author:Don Alias
“Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine.” HeartArtBodyMagicMusic IsMedicineHealHeartbeatResonanceWandsElixirMagic WandsElixir Of Life Author:Walter Mikac
“Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.” PeopleWayHeartMovingMusic IsMedicineMediumsTherapyStringsHeart StringsMusic Therapy Author:Macklemore