Music has a bonding power, it's primal social cement

To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

At 11, I could say ‘I am sodium’ (Element 11), and now at 79, I am gold.

I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential.

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.

Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.