The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed …

Lewis Thomas
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The need to make music, and to listen to it, is universally expressed by human beings. I cannot imagine, even in our most primitive times, the emergence of talented painters to make cave paintings without there having been, near at hand, equally creative people making song. It is, like speech, a dominant aspect of human biology. ✨ Lewis Thomas (1990). A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays
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