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 with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

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

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you. You interact with them.

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.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.