In terms of brain development, musical performance is every bit as important educationally as reading or writing.

Oliver Sacks

It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me

Oliver Sacks

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

Oliver Sacks

Life must be lived forwards but can only be understood backwards.

Oliver Sacks

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity..

Oliver Sacks

We are all creatures of our upbringings, our cultures, our times.

Oliver Sacks

It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads.

Oliver Sacks

I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.

Oliver Sacks

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

Oliver Sacks

Waking consciousness is dreaming – but dreaming constrained by external reality

Oliver Sacks

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

Oliver Sacks

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Oliver Sacks