Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

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 straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger.

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 there to know it.

Music is...a fundamental way of expressing our humanity - and it is often our best medicine.

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 organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.

There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient.

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.