Music Quote by Siddhartha Mukherjee

“Where, then, is any particular gene—say, the gene for long legs in humans? This is a little like asking where is Beethoven’s Piano Sonata…

— James Gleick

I think there's such a thing, as a performance gene. If it's in your DNA it needs to come out. For me it originally…

— Cillian Murphy

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

— Carlos Santana

Music acts on the whole of the organism like a magic force which suppresses the understanding and irresistibly takes possession of the entire being.…

— Emile Jaques-Dalcroze

“At conception, we start as a single cell that contains all the DNA needed to build our body. The plan for that entire body…

— Neil Shubin

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

— Morton Feldman

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one,…

— Igor Stravinsky

“By contrast, the three other features—conjunct melodic motion, limited macroharmony, and centricity—are common to virtually all human music. This near universality may be attributable,…

— Dmitri Tymoczko

The genome was once thought to be just the blueprint for a living organism, like a combination of the architect's plan for a building…

— Iain McGilchrist

“Music allows us to assemble temporal sequences into mental scaffolding that transcends the thinness of time in which we live.”

— George B. Dyson

It struck me recently, that one should really consider the sequence of a protein molecule about to fold into a precise geometric form as…

— Christian B. Anfinsen

The score must govern the music. It must have authority, and not merely be an arbitrary jumping-off point for improvisation.

— Cornelius Cardew