A successful song comes to sing itself inside the listener. It is cellular and seismic, a wave coalescing in the mind and in the flesh. There is a message outside and a message inside, and those messages are the same, like the pat and thud of two heartbeats, one within you, one surrounding. The message of the lullaby is that it’s okay to dim the eyes for a time, to lose sight of yourself as you sleep and as you grow: if you drift, it says, you’ll drift ashore: if you fall, you will fall into place. . Kevin Brockmeier
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This quote gives an interesting view on the power of music and how it can be used as a tool to heal. At first, we may take music as something that we listen to and enjoy, but we do not know what kind of message it sends to us. As we listen to a song, we may feel the rhythm and the intensity of it. It may remind us of a certain time or event that happened in our life and we cannot help but think about it.

We cannot help but feel that song. This quote by Stephen Fry helps explain that music has a power that gets into our soul and heals it even though it is only through the vehicle of sound.

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