Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

But there's a Sufi story that challenges the notion that people believe only because they need an opiate. Rabe'a al-Adiwiyah, a great woman saint of Sufism, was seen running through the streets of her hometown, Basra, carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she answered, 'I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to use this torch to burn down the gates of paradise so that people will not love God for want of heaven or fear of hell, but because He is God.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?

Music is a beautiful opiate if you don't take it too seriously.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action while the distant hope acts as an opiate.