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Quotes About Escape

Music is something that takes you to a world which is very different from the world of hatred,jealousy, and all those negative emotions
~ A. R. Rahman
Relax, ease back in your seats and let the music take you wherever it does.
~ John Denver
Where you are right now blast some music and forget.
~ Andy Biersack
Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
On some nights, I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.
~ Art Blakey
The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.
~ Thomas Beecham
Close your eyes and let music set you free.
~ Charles Hart
When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?
~ Jim Jarmusch
I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door.
~ J. D. Salinger
Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life
~ Art Blakey
Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them
~ Pete Townshend
I'm just some irritating, lying, ginger kid from Cornwall who should have been locked up in some youth detention centre. I just managed to escape and blag it into music.
~ Aphex Twin
Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.
~ Ville Valo
I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.
~ Robert Smith
Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.
~ Stephan Jenkins
Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
~ Shania Twain
I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism.
~ Peter Hook
I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Music is the brandy of the damned.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.
~ Adam Duritz
I just sat there letting that music cover me like a big, cozy blanket.
~ Jennifer Niven
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
~ Sinead O'Connor
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
~ Leonard Bernstein