It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, h…

Oliver Sacks
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It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads. ✨ Oliver Sacks (2011). Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, p.53, Pan Macmillan
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