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> [If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/if-migraine-patients-have-a-common-and-legitimate-second-complaint/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

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## More by Oliver Sacks

> [“The feelings are similar, in some ways, to those one has in Rome or Athens, but quite different in other ways, because this culture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/the-feelings-are-similar-in-some-ways-to-those-one-has-in-rome-or/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/but-the-saddest-difference-between-them-was-that-zazetsky-as-luria/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ears.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/music-can-lift-us-out-of-depression-or-move-us-to-tears-it-is-a/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [“We have five senses in which we glory and which we recognise and celebrate, senses that constitute the sensible world for us. But there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/we-have-five-senses-in-which-we-glory-and-which-we-recognise-and/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/but-it-must-be-said-from-the-outset-that-a-disease-is-never-a-mere/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/there-is-no-one-part-of-the-brain-which-recognizes-or-responds/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/i-think-there-is-no-culture-in-which-music-is-not-very-important-and/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/who-cared-if-there-was-really-any-being-to-pray-to-what-mattered-was/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [“unconscious motives may sometimes ally themselves to physiological propensities, of how one cannot abstract an ailment or its treatment from the whole pattern, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/unconscious-motives-may-sometimes-ally-themselves-to-physiological/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [“We have, each of us, a life-story, an inner narrative — whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives. It might be said that each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/we-have-each-of-us-a-life-story-an-inner-narrative-whose-continuity/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/i-regard-music-therapy-as-a-tool-of-great-power-in-many-neurological/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer at you.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/psychotic-hallucinations-whether-they-are-visual-or-vocal-they/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/much-more-of-the-brain-is-devoted-to-movement-than-to-language/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/about-10-percent-of-the-hearing-impaired-get-musical-hallucinations/)

[Oliver Sacks](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oliver-sacks/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oliver-sacks/the-rhythm-of-music-is-very-very-important-for-people-with-parkinson/)

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