Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

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.

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.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

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.