I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means.

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

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.

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

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

Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.

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