Air Quote by Michael Jackson

I write songs to handle emotional pain. I guess what they say is true: with every heartache comes a great song. I also pray…

— Matt Sorum

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with…

— Paula Cole

“Just as music is a natural way to empathy, music can also be a way to open you to compassion. Have you ever felt…

— Will Jelbert

When our hearts open, when we know that we are in fact the world, when we experience the pain of others in our own…

— Ram Dass

If you think about it, when you listen to music, music makes you cry. It makes you happy. It makes you dance. It makes…

— Zak Bagans

I deal with emotional pain through therapy, writing, therapy in music. I think emotional pain is best dealt with when you use art to…

— Naturi Naughton

Real compassion is not emotional. Real compassion is based on the experience that all beings, which might appear separate, are actually a part of…

— Krishna Das

Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else's skin. It is the knowledge that there…

— Frederick Buechner

I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am.…

— Taylor Swift

I am either blessed or cursed with having little barrier between feeling emotions and displaying them for all to see. My heart is on…

— Kristin Bauer van Straten

Felt really low as a teenager and hearing music from artists that could express their pain in a way that is beautiful and made…

— Olly Alexander

Compassion naturally creates a positive atmosphere, and as a result you feel peaceful and content.

— Anonymous