All kinds Quote by Oliver Sacks

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from.…

— Elvis Costello

Music was born of love. Had there never been any human affection, there never could have been uttered a strain of music.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

— Anonymous

Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music.

— Swami Vivekananda

For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely…

— Dennis Prager

I have increasingly become conversant with Pythagoras' and Goethe's idea of a primordial music, not perceptible to the sensuous ear, but sounding and soaring…

— Bruno Walter

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

— Henry David Thoreau

“Music is one of the highest forms of language which can touch everyone’s feeling—including animals.”

— Debasish Mridha

Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than…

— Immanuel Kant

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music.

— Jonah Lehrer

“On thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held more for him than just pleasure. There was meat to…

— Charles Frazier