“Music can have wonderful, formal, quasi-mathematical perfection, and it can have heartbreaking tenderness, poignancy, and beauty. But it does not have to have any ‘meaning’ whatever. One may recall music, give it the life of imagination simply because one likes it – this is reason enough. Or perhaps there may be no reason at all, as Rodolfo Llinas points out.”

“Music can have wonderful, formal, quasi-mathematical perfection, and it can have heartbreaking tenderness, poignancy, and beauty. But it does not have to have any ‘meaning’ whatever. One may recall music, give it the life of imagination simply because one likes it – this is reason enough. Or perhaps there may be no reason at all, as Rodolfo Llinas points out.”

— Oliver Sacks