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The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. One may see this even in the case of idiots, with IQs below 20 and the extremest motor incompetence and bewilderment. Their uncouth movements may disappear in a moment with music and dancing—suddenly, with music, they know how to move. We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music—the sequence of movements they cannot hold as schemes being perfectly holdable as music, i.e. embedded in music. The same may be seen, very dramatically, in patients with severe frontal lobe damage and apraxia—an inability to do things, to retain the simplest motor sequences and programmes, even to walk, despite perfectly preserved intelligence in all other ways. This procedural defect, or motor idiocy, as one might call it, which completely defeats any ordinary system of rehabilitative instruction, vanishes at once if music is the instructor. All this, no doubt, is the rationale, or one of the rationales, of work songs.


Oliver Sacks


#essential #music #narrative #therapy #intelligence

To read fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the immensity of things that happened, are happening, or will happen in the actual world. By reading narrative, we escape the anxiety that attacks us when we try to say something true about the world. This is the consoling function of narrative — the reason people tell stories, and have told stories from the beginning of time.


Umberto Eco


#escape #escapism #fiction #interpretation #narrative

Partnerships are good engines for narrative.


Tommy Lee Jones


#good #narrative #partnerships

More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.


Walter Isaacson


#businessperson #effort #generally #i #jobs

I want to photograph what I see and put it in a dramatic context. I'm an actor and a writer, and I want to tell these stories and present these shapes, colors and movements as I see them, as I see them serve a narrative. As I see that narrative serve an audience. That's what I want to do.


Tommy Lee Jones


#audience #colors #context #dramatic #i

My idea in terms of managing a narrative, or in thinking in my creative life, is that you could easily argue that the past, the present and the future all occur simultaneously, and if you can postulate that, then you're not strictly bound to a linear narrative.


Tommy Lee Jones


#bound #could #creative #creative life #easily

All the gossip and craziness becomes a kind of sustained narrative which, in turn, can become history. It's scary.


Barbara Kruger


#becomes #craziness #gossip #history #kind

A continuing narrative throughout Australia's history that says it is better to build up than to tear down - this is the continuing mission of Labor.


Kevin Rudd


#better #build #continuing #down #history

I love the freedom that the narrative form provides.


Sidney Sheldon


#freedom #i #i love #love #narrative

You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form.


Tom Stoppard


#art form #audience #because #better #capture






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