"Music can lift us out of depression or……" — Oliver Sacks
"Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear."
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78 Quotes by Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks has 78 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the…
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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…
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I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because…
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About 10 percent of the hearing impaired get musical hallucinations, and about 10 percent of the visually impaired get visual…
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Psychotic hallucinations, whether they are visual or vocal, they address you. They accuse you. They seduce you. They humiliate you.…
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I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of…
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Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many…
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We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often…
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More Depression Quotes
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There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium…
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in…
— Marcus Aurelius
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
— Richard Bach
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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There's been moments of depression in my life, moments when I was in situations that I thought I wouldn't be…
— Stephen Baldwin
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I went from being very popular and the head of the clique in the sixth grade to having, like, kid…
— Tyra Banks
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If I didn't try to eavesdrop on every bus ride I take or look for the humor when I go…
— Lynda Barry
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In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a…
— Ben Bernanke
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Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who…
— Bjork
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