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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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What we try to do with all of our albums, is live out our musical fantasies in the most honest fashion we…
— Michael Hutchence
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Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and…
— Lenny Kaye
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Nature endows us with the feeling that moves us in all our musical experiences; we might call her gift instinct.
— Jean-Philippe Rameau
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
— Edgard Varese
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We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces,…
— Brian Eno
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
— Lawrence Welk
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There are, of course, inherent tendencies to repetition in music itself. Our poetry, our ballads, our songs are full of repetition; nursery…
— Oliver Sacks
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can…
— Edgard Varese
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You know, Python should have won a Grammy for our musical work on the show.
— Graham Chapman
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By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family. Lawrence Welk
— Lawrence Welk
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