Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.

I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

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

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.

We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognize and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there are other senses - secret senses, sixth senses, if you will - equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded ... unconscious, automatic.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.