And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: ‘A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is ….

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

Enhancement not only allows the possibilities of a healthy fullness and exuberance, but of a rather ominous extravagance, aberration, monstrosity ...….

Astounded—and indifferent—for he was a man who, in effect, had no ‘day before’..

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest ….

Music is part of being human..

I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have gi….

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--.

I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or….

Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this ….

In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing..

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 t….

The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individu….

I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living..

My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden a….

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising ja….

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self—himself—he cannot know it, because he is no longer….

Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love..

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, wh….

Darwin speculated that “music tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are ….

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded..