The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
Oliver SacksI feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.
Oliver SacksThere will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
Oliver SacksIf we have youth, beauty, blessed gifts, strength, if we find fame, fortune, favor, fulfillment, it is easy to be nice, to turn a warm heart to the world.
Oliver SacksDarwin speculated that โmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumphโ and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music.
Oliver Sacks