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.

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

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 took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations.

I cannot pretend i am not without fear.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

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 having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.

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