Music Is My Drug Quotes

#1. Music is my drug, the one thing that makes me numb.

Simone Elkeles

#2. My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life.

Kelly Brook

#3. Always, you wake up to an unpleasant memory and an unpleasant body and your spirit is reduced to a pile of dirty ashes residing somewhere inside of your ass. You've gotta face the music, which is a beautiful island outside, but you can't even bear to look out the window.

Anthony Kiedis

#4. Music is like a drug, but there are no rehabilitation centres.

Morrissey

#5. I am stupidly passionate about music; it has become a bit of drug. I buy tons of CDs and spend days listening to each and every one, putting notes on every song to know which tracks are good so that when I do my little MP3 collection, I know which songs to include.

Jacques Villeneuve

#6. If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Henry Rollins

#7. Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

Noel Gallagher

#8. Music was always the one thing in my life I could count on, the drug that took me away from reality and made me feel whole.

Karina Halle

#9. 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

#10. I don't tell anyone what they should do (drugs). It's like this music is so full of power and energy you don't really need to take anything if you just open up and let the music take you.

Paul Van Dyk

#11. I guess music is your drug of choice.

Tara Kelly

#12. There's no drug in the world that can compare with playing music.

Pete Doherty

#13. I don't need drugs to make weird music.

Kool Keith

#14. We don't make music for people to take drugs to, we make music for people to live their life.

Billy Corgan

#15. Music is fulfilling. The next day you
feel better. Drugs, the next day you feel
terrible
unless you have more drugs.

Neil Young

#16. I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Nina Simone

#17. I rebelled against the Mormon Church by going to other churches. I rebelled against my parents by not eating meat. I rebelled against my friends and myself by doing drugs. And I rebelled against everything that was holding me down by playing music with these guys.

Bert McCracken

#18. Americans spend more money on music than on sex or prescription drugs

Daniel Levitin

#19. I love seeing people react to my music. Its like a drug, one of the strongest drugs ever in my opinion. Not that I'm doing drugs.. I just love that feeling. Putting out a feeling and having it really be the one is more addicting than anything in my life now.

Drake

#20. The mind and body must be subjected to extreme stimulus, by means of drugs and music.

Hunter S. Thompson

#21. A lot of rappers want somebody to always sing on their records. If you can hold a note, they're gonna' ask you to come and be apart of their creativity. At that time, they were eager and on the streets selling drugs or in the studio making music. That was a big part of our lives were I grew up.

Nicki Minaj

#22. Music gets inside you, music captures you. Music becomes your heartbeat. It's a drug and makes you feel whatever the song's about.

Ed Westwick

#23. Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

Tony Wilson

#24. I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

Macklemore

#25. I think trance music is the only music you can listen to without taking drugs. You can really feel the emotions in it. You can get on another level without the drugs. If you listen to techno, it's so monotone that you really need drugs to enjoy it.

Tiesto

#26. Music originally had a social function. You were in church, in a concert hall, a marching band; you were dancing. I'm concerned that music could be too separated from its roots and just become a pleasure-giving experience, like a drug.

Oliver Sacks

#27. I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

#28. I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

Bikram Choudhury

#29. I've been told by professional drug users that if I did the drugs, I would like the Dead. It seems like the most effective PSA against drugs could just play some Dead jams and say, "If you do drugs, you will like this kind of music." What other deterrent would one need?

Penn Jillette

#30. Some kids my age experiment with drugs, I experiment with music.

Renee Olstead

#31. As long as music of mine is not used to preach hate, or to bash women, it's okay for me. If it doesn't promote violence against women, drugs, this and that, use it, go ahead.

Angelique Kidjo

#32. What's the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.

Will Hermes

#33. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

Jason Whitlock

#34. I was into punk, but I didn't go whole-hog. A lot of kids who grew up in small towns that were into punk music went the "safe" way - not doing drugs, being straight edge.

Daughn Gibson

#35. Overwhelms you with tingling excitement give you pleasure because of internal molecules. Some researchers believe that thrills occur when molecules called endorphins are released. A drug called naloxone blocks those molecules and prevents music from inspiring

Robert E. Svoboda

#36. Music is magic. It's my favourite drug: it really has an effect on me mentally and physically. It's such a rush

Craig Nicholls

#37. She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

Billy Joel

#38. It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.

Eric Clapton