I Heard There Was a Secret Chord Quotes

“Science seeks to find truth in the natural world; art seeks to find truth in the emotional world.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

“Musical experience, even in the absence of formal training, changes the very structure and wiring of the brain. The changes not only facilitate the flow of information across the left and right hemispheres, they also connect the frontal lobes, the seat of higher thought, with the motor cortex. Peter Vuust at Aarhus University in Denmark went on to show that professional musicians display enhanced neuroplasticity in connections between auditory and visual areas. Musical perception is truly multimodal, and can lead to lifelong improvements in brain function and connectivity.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

“The most important distinction, then, isn't in separating artists from scientists and doctors, but in separating formulaic thinkers from creative ones, separating those who can tolerate uncertainty from those who cannot. Art, science, and medicine trade in doubt, and in its remedy - improvisation.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine

“drilling through bone and plugging up leaks like some sanguine plumber.”
― Daniel J. Levitin, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine