Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love.

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

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

In general, people are afraid to acknowledge hallucinations because they immediately see them as a sign of something awful happening to the brain, whereas in most cases theyre not.

Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

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

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.