Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings.Oliver Sacks
We humans are a musical species no less than a linguistic one.Oliver Sacks
Partly this is due to the nature of music itself - it can bypass the intellect, and stimulate the emotions directly.Oliver Sacks
There is no one center in the brain dedicated to music. Music is represented diffusely in a vast web.Oliver Sacks
Amusia, the loss of ability to perceive or remember music, is surprisingly common.Oliver Sacks
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear.Oliver Sacks
While music can affect all of us - calm us, animate us, comfort us, thrill us, or serve to organize and synchronize us at work or play - it may be especially powerful and have great therapeutic potential for patients with a variety of neurological conditions.Oliver Sacks
Some people, unable to imagine a world without sound, fear deafness more than any other disability.Oliver Sacks
Music, for me, is a source of great joy and comfort, a refuge, a world apart.Oliver Sacks
Rhythm and its entrainment of movement, and thus, time-sense, is a fundamental aspect of music - and perhaps even the fundamental aspect of music.Oliver Sacks
Nothing so powerfully brings one into living, vibrating contact with the physicalness of one's body as music and rhythm.Oliver Sacks