We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

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

The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients.

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

There 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.

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

there are other senses -­ secret senses, sixth senses, if you will -­ equally vital, but unrecognized, and unlauded.