Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, b….

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's….

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'..

I had never thought about what it might mean to be deaf, to be deprived of language, or to have a remarkable language (and community and culture) of ….

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me..

I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to or….

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional..

I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands..

The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients ….

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement..

Creativity involves the depth of a mind, and many, many depths of unconsciousness..

Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date ….

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized ….

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some s….

Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost….

If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is havin….

I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which m….

Nature gropes and blunders and performs the crudest acts. There is no steady advance upward. There is no design..

Thus the feeling I sometimes have - which all of us who work closely with aphasiacs have - that one cannot lie to an aphasiac. He cannot grasp your w….

There is certainly a universal and unconscious propensity to impose a rhythm even when one hears a series of identical sounds at constant intervals..….

A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for ….