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We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives.
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A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the…
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
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The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.
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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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When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual hallucinations.
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you. They jeer…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of…
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For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power…
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In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
— Gaston Bachelard
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I don't believe there's anything cosmic or divine or morally superior about whales and dolphins or sharks or trees, but I do…
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If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.
— Oscar Wilde
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When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana.…
— E.W. Jackson
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The Ninja, as you know, operates by stealth. And so, case in point: I put out records... no one hears them! I…
— Henry Rollins
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The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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MEMRI allows an audience far beyond the Arabic-speaking world to observe the wide variety of Arab voices speaking through the media, schoolbooks,…
— Richard Holbrooke
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There is a certain type of conversation one hears only when one is drunk and it is like a dream, full of…
— Joy Williams
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The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special…
— Iannis Xenakis
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Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly…
— Albert J. Nock
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When I think back now to the recording sessions, there is more improvisation than one hears. It's an ideal combination of arrangements…
— Eberhard Weber
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