Oliver Sacks - Music Quotes

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

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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. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

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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.

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