Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general conc….

Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm of the imaginati….

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species..

When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach..

The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairl….

I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets ….

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients….

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality.

The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains w….

Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar fling….

My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings.….

Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces….

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people..

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over..

There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients..

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds..

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you.….

I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they are scarc….

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential..

There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave ….

Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way ….