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

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

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

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.

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

The power of music and the plasticity of the brain go together very strikingly, especially in young people.