“Our first appreciation of music comes through the sounds of the mother, especially her voice and her lullaby. Our earliest musical expression, of which speech is a part, is in a sense a duet with her. And later in life we should still be able to discern the voice of love in the music.”

— John Diamond (doctor)

Source: The Life Energy in Music, Vol. 1 (1981), p. 25

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