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.

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

The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement.

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

We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.