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Oliver Sacks

“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.”

Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain
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