Oliver Sacks Quotes

(Music) is as powerful as any medicine,

When the documentary of `Awakenings` was made in `73, the first thing the film director asked was, `Could we meet the music therapist? She seems to be the most important person around here,`

Who cared if there was really any Being to pray to? What mattered was the sense of giving thanks and praise, the feeling of a humble and grateful heart.

Certainly it`s not just a visual experience - it`s an emotional one. In an informal way I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in painting at a time when they are scarcely responsive to words and disoriented and out of it. I think that recognition of visual art can be very deep.